repeated oneself
Echoed prior words
To have repeated oneself is to have said the same thing more than once, whether intentionally for emphasis or accidentally through forgetfulness: I'm sorry if I've repeated myself—I can't remember who I've told.
The phrase often carries a mild sense of redundancy or loss of track: He repeated himself so often that people stopped listening.
- echoingReflecting sound repeatedly
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- perseverationInvoluntary repetition of responses
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- reiterationSaying something again
paraphrasing · restating · recapitulation · clarification · tautology · same old story · looping · going in circles · emphasis · overexplaining · verbosity · broken record · harping · beating a dead horse · fixation · rehashing · annoyance · misunderstanding
repeated oneselfinnovated
Created something original
broke new ground · improvised · extemporized · paraphrased · rephrased
repeated oneselfflip-flopped
Reversed one's position
backtracked · recanted · retracted · waffled · equivocated
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