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echo

verb copying, duplication, imitation, reecho, reflect, repeat, repetition, resound, return, reverberate, reverberation
Associated concepts: a circuit court decision echoing annther circuit of the US Court of Appeals

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Not only would the echoes die away, as though the steps had gone; but, echoes of other steps that never came would be heard in their stead, and would die away for good when they seemed close at hand.

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But the echoes of the chime die away--they have endured but an instant--and a light, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart.

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The Guggenhammers sure must go some when a fight of that dimension was no more than a skirmish of which they deigned to hear echoes.