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AGAIN AND AGAIN
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Repeatedly
Example:
the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text
Synonyms:
again and again; over and over; over and over again; time and again; time and time again
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Context examples:
Long she argued it with him, but the argument was one-sided, for he contented himself with repeating again and again, "He killed Dutchy and Harkey."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He assured me again and again that it was the last thing in the world he would dream of doing in a sober moment.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped back at the house, and did so again and again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
His quick eye she detected again and again glancing towards them with a happy expression; and even, when he might have determined not to look, she was confident that he was often listening.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Of all the amazing things which had happened, this seemed to have impressed my uncle most, and he recurred to it again and again.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I rang again and again, with the same result.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The complaints and lamentations which politeness had hitherto restrained, now burst forth universally; and they all agreed again and again how provoking it was to be so disappointed.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Close at his heels came a hundred furious peasants, who flung themselves again and again against the five swords which confronted them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The thought returned again and again.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
