The phrase "apt to repeat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is likely or inclined to do something again.
Example: "He is apt to repeat his mistakes if he doesn't learn from them."
Alternatives: "likely to repeat" or "prone to repeat".
A similar sort of danger haunts Miles's books, which are apt to repeat the same stories.
Facing southward, she flourishes a palm frond nettling some Southerners, who are still apt to repeat the hoary wisecrack "Just like a Yankee: make the lady walk".
Facing southward, she flourishes a palm frond — nettling some Southerners, who are still apt to repeat the hoary wisecrack "Just like a Yankee: make the lady walk".
He knows well that with 30 days to get his desired ends accomplished, both substantive and political, the minority party isn't apt to repeat history.
Even if you are poor and find employment and continue to work, you will remain poor by Los Angeles standards and your children, too, are apt to repeat the poverty cycle.
Her opponents for the nomination, naturally, would prefer that voters see her experience as something more apt to be repeated than learned from.
It is such an apt description I'm tempted to repeat it, but in the name of good manners, let's just say they are all CS.
WEARY observers and even some participants in Northern Ireland's "peace process" increasingly see the film "Groundhog Day", in which the hero is doomed to repeat the same experience over and over again, as an apt commentary on Ulster.
I had given up on understanding William Carlos Williams's text, so it was a revelation when words (obviously apt in this musical context) came through like a beacon: "It is a principle of music to repeat the theme.
Keep asking servers to repeat, repeat, repeat.
