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Do not use tautologies when you write to avoid being redundant.


A tatulogy is needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word. In writing, a tautlogy is often found as a pair of synomous words. For example, "cash money."

Read your manuscript carefully looking for double noun combinations or double adjective combinations. If the  two words mean the same thing, remove one of them.

Note the obvious redundancies below that could be corrected by removing one of the paired words:

teeny tiny stone

switchblade knife

the one and only

dash quickly

advance planning

known facts

Mojave desert


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