Tautologies - Computer Science and Software Engineering - University of Canterbury - New Zealand

Tautologies

A tautology is the use of a redundant expression - you are effectively saying the same thing twice. They are very common! For example very unique is well used.

Here are some to be avoided where possible.

Bad Good
absolutely essential essential
at a later date later
basic essentials / basic fundamentals essentials / fundamentals
collaborate together collaborate
completely surrounded surrounded
current trend trend
end result result
in conjunction with with
join together join
look back in retrospect look back
mutual cooperation cooperation
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