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again and again

again and again

255 1.0
Many times on different occasions
  • idiom
translation icon : una y otra vez
  • A second factor that I, I, I see again and again in companies is insularity.
  • repeat again and again
  • try again and again
  • read again and again

We make these trade-offs again and again, multiple times a day.

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Examples

  • l've been going over the figures again and again and they all add up.

    Fantastic Four (2005)

  • Young readers can click the text to have it read aloud again and again.

    Academic text (2015)

  • And this appears again and again in different forms.

  • And that gets brought up again and again in the book as well.

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • And we keep coming to that, coming back to that again and again, OK.

  • You have to keep doing the same thing again and again for year after year.

    The BlueTick Show

  • I told him what I had said again and again.

    Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

  • What was it about these stories that kept readers coming back again and again, in every generation?

    Academic text (2011)

  • We make these trade-offs again and again, multiple times a day.

    TED-Ed

  • The student practiced his presentation again and again until he felt confident.

Synonyms

often
vsagain and again
∞ 1.0

Happens many times

is more general and can apply to any repeated timing
over and over
vsagain and again
556 1.0

Many times in a row

is a neutral repeated action phrase, not specifically colloquial
repeatedly
vsagain and again
382 1.0

It happens again and again

is the neutral general term for repeated action
over and over again
vsagain and again
268 1.0

Happens many times

is the same idea but without the sense of continuous repetition
oftentimes
vsagain and again
  • Archaic
98 4.9

Happens many times, usually within a short time

is broader and does not focus on short intervals
on a regular basis
vsagain and again
91 2.3

Happens often at set times

is the broad repeated action without implying a fixed schedule
time and time again
vsagain and again
  • Informal
73 1.8

Very often on many occasions

is the plain expression without extra emphasis on frequency
time and again
vsagain and again
  • Informal
47 1.8

Happens again and again

is similar but more neutral about frequency intensity
many a time
vsagain and again
6 2.6

It happens often

is the straightforward repeated action without expressive tone
repetitively
vsagain and again
3 3.5

Again and again in the same way, often causing boredom or annoyance

is neutral about feeling and does not imply monotony
recurrently
vsagain and again
1 4.3

Happens again and again at regular times

is more general and does not require a regular pattern

How Often

constantly
740 1.0
again and again
255 1.0
often
∞ 1.0
sometimes
∞ 1.0
occasionally
438 2.0

Surface Forms

again and again positive

Morphology

again + and + again

The meaning 'many times; repeatedly' is directly and transparently derived from the repetition of 'again' joined by 'and' — a learner who knows 'again' (once more) and 'and' (and/addition) can infer repeated occurrence. This simple reduplicative/compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows basic semantic logic, so a B1 learner would readily understand it.

Etymology

Again and again paints a simple picture: imagine doing something once, then again, then again, like pressing a button many times. That's why it means 'many times' or 'repeatedly'.