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Gradually, surface accounts reaching the American public came to seem repetitious and normal.

That said, “The Franchise” is a fairly diverting, if somewhat repetitious comedy with a cast that makes for good company — I’ll follow Adefope anywhere — even as they make one another miserable.

Pedro’s notations, though repetitious and even tedious, opened my eyes to his meticulous nature, the way he viewed each dollar as one that couldn’t fall through the cracks.

“At the sake of sounding repetitious,” he said, “I just want to thank my mother.”

It’s far too stylized to mount a stinging critique, and its one-disaster-after-another structure risks becoming repetitious.