Sentence examples for repeated action from inspiring English sources

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The choreography is extremely repetitive, and yet also progressive, one repeated action leading to the next.

Typically, it takes eight weeks for a repeated action to become a habit and so we're encouraging people to record their steps for at least 12 weeks.

It takes around 21 days of repeated action to form a new habit, so it's understandable how getting into a routine like this can help beat procrastination.

Derivational extensions of verb stems (forming what are called "stirpes" or "themes") use root modification (infixes) and derivative affixes together with partial or complete reduplication to indicate repeated action.

Recuperating on a ridge after an arduous day, he observes that "my legs preserved a ghost sense of stride, a muscle memory of repeated action, and twitched forwards even as I rested".

Derivational markers may combine, which makes it possible for a single verb to indicate repeated action (by what is called the iterative derivation of the verb), action caused to happen (the causative derivation), action affecting the subject (the reflexive derivation), or action mutually affecting subject and object (the reciprocal derivation).

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The Security Council has taken repeated actions to curb the development of atomic weapons in Iran and North Korea.

It takes place in a sequence or a progression through repeated trials, through repeated exposure, repeated actions, and through practice.

Most video games are about repeated actions, about mastering a skill and exploiting it.

Constantly repeated actions are not unique to computing, and many people have suffered from housemaid's knee, tennis elbow, writer's cramp and other physical complaints.

First there's his obsessiveness, a theme throughout the art, which is conveyed in videos and performances as neurotically repeated actions (like hacking his finger with the cleaver).

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