Example Sentences

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Too true, in the way that tautologies always are: Anti-Jewish hatred is indeed antisemitism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

To quote one of my favorite tautologies, from David Mamet’s “Heist”: “Everybody wants money. That’s why they call it money.”

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2017

Anyone with a rudimentary grasp of rhetoric and logic who reads The Food Babe Way will be overwhelmed by tautologies, fallacies, non-sequiturs, and false dichotomies.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2015

There are no real generalities that can be made about a group of 50,000 people that are not tautologies.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2012

“Are you going to bore me with your tautologies all day or are you going to actually say something?”

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie