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Anonymous Posted 3 years ago
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Being close to resolved
Roy bashed the meeting as "a complete disaster" and, contrary to McCarthy, argued the standoff was nowhere close to being close to resolved: "How do you put that genie back in the bottle? I don't know."
From Politico.
Is the "close" redundant in the clause "being close to resolved" in the context of the paragraph above?
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anonymous Roy bashed the meeting as "a complete disaster" and, contrary to McCarthy, argued the standoff was nowhere close to being close to resolved: "How do you put that genie back in the bottle? " It is a careless mistake. An unintended duplication.
- anonymous Roy bashed the meeting as "a complete disaster" and, contrary to McCarthy, argued the standoff was nowhere close to being close to resolved: "How do you put that genie back in the bottle?
- " It is a careless mistake.
- An unintended duplication.
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anonymousRoy bashed the meeting as "a complete disaster" and, contrary to McCarthy, argued the standoff was nowhere close to being close to resolved: "How do you put that genie back in the bottle? I don't know."
It is a careless mistake. An unintended duplication.
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