One tip I learned from another journalist is to write down a list of different ways of describing the moves and cross them off as you use them, to avoid repetition.

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Extreme care should be exercised to avoid a repetition of this tragic history.

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GATT, after all, was set up after the second world war precisely to avoid a repetition of the economic follies of the 1930s.

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The Russian navy has received a new nuclear missile submarine which has an escape capsule, to avoid any repetition of the 2000 Kursk disaster.

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But the tight and rigid timetable for Doha was designed to avoid a repetition of the Uruguay round, which overran by three years and still involved eleventh-hour horse-trading.

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Joschka Fischer, Germany's Green foreign minister, now says that his lifelong aversion to militarism has been superseded by an even more powerful imperative: the need to avoid a repetition of the Nazi death camps.

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As the nation rouses itself to address the lessons learned from last week's blackout, it better focus not only on how to avoid a repetition but also on a possibly vastly more serious blackout next time.

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In essence, Nomura committed the same sin as it did in 1991: compensating a favoured client for losses in the stockmarket by dealing on his behalf, a practice explicitly outlawed in 1992 to avoid a repetition of the firm's past misdemeanours.

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