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The term pleonasm is most often, however, employed as synonymous with tautology. en.wikipedia.org

The members of a student fraternity can be called frat(ernity) boys, technically preferable to the pleonasm frat-bro(ther), and remain so for life as adults, after graduation. en.wikipedia.org

Paradoxically, while minimalism is the norm in writing, in speech there is unnecessary addition and pleonasm. www.thehindu.com

Many other examples of pleonasm are redundant only if the speaker's knowledge is taken into account. en.wikipedia.org

Words like prolix, strobile, banausic and pleonasm. www.radiotimes.com

See also tautology (rhetoric) and pleonasm. en.wikipedia.org

He'd tell you that using "laidback" and "relaxed", when either would suffice on their own, is a pleonasm. www.independent.co.uk

Sometimes editors and grammatical stylists will use pleonasm to describe simple wordiness. en.wikipedia.org

Linguists usually call this redundancy to avoid confusion with syntactic pleonasm, a more important phenomenon for theoretical linguistics. en.wikipedia.org

A more general classification of redundancy is pleonasm, which can be any unnecessary words (or even word parts). en.wikipedia.org

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