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Reduplication
Reduplication, also called doubling, is the repetition of all or part of a word for grammatical or semantic purposes. Unlike ordinary repetition, it is grammatically determined; common functions include plurality, intensity, diminution, and word-class change.
Reduta Ordona
Reduta Ordona is a patriotic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, written in Dresden in 1832, describing the defense of a Warsaw redoubt against the Russian assault of 1831.
Reduviidae
Reduviidae (assassin bugs) are a family of predatory true bugs, Hemiptera, with about 6,800 species in 19 subfamilies after the 2025 revision; includes blood-feeding Triatominae (kissing bugs) that vector Chagas disease; originated in the Middle Jurassic.
Redux Redux
Redux Redux (also Find. Kill. Repeat.) is a 2025 American multiverse sci-fi thriller by twin directors Kevin and Matthew McManus, starring their sister Michaela McManus as Irene Kelly, a mother who repeatedly kills her daughter's murderer across parallel universes; released theatrically February 20, 2026 and streaming on Hulu from July 2026.
Redwall
Redwall is Brian Jacques's 22-novel children's fantasy series (1986-2011) about anthropomorphic animals defending Redwall Abbey; written for a Liverpool school for the blind, adapted for TV, with 2025 Netflix plans scrapped.
Redwater fractionation complex
The Redwater fractionation complex is a natural gas liquids fractionation and storage facility in Redwater, Alberta, owned by Pembina Pipeline and the largest in Canada.
Redwood (musical)
Redwood (musical): original Broadway musical at the Nederlander Theatre, conceived by Tina Landau and Idina Menzel, music by Kate Diaz, starring Menzel as Jesse; ran February 13 to May 18, 2025, a New York Times Critic's Pick with no Tony nominations.
Redwood City, California
Redwood City, California: San Mateo County seat on the San Francisco Peninsula, incorporated 1867. Gold Rush lumber port, home of the South Bay's only deep water port; population about 82,000-84,000.
Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials is an American battery recycling and materials company founded in 2017 by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, based in Carson City, Nevada, and valued above $6 billion.
Redwood National and State Parks
Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP): jointly managed NPS-California park complex in Humboldt and Del Norte counties, 138,999 acres, protecting the largest remaining contiguous old-growth coast redwood forest, a 1980 World Heritage Site.
Redwood Research
Redwood Research is a nonprofit AI safety research organization based in Berkeley, California, founded in 2021 and led by CEO Buck Shlegeris, best known for originating the research field of AI control.
Redwood Software
Redwood Software is a Dutch cloud business and IT process automation company founded in 1993 by Tijl Vuyk and fellow Oracle employees, known for its RunMyJobs workload automation platform.
Ree Drummond
Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, is an American blogger, cookbook author, and Food Network personality whose 2006 blog about ranch life near Pawhuska, Oklahoma grew into cookbooks, a TV show, and Pawhuska businesses.
Reeb vector field
A Reeb vector field is the unique vector field associated to a contact form on an odd-dimensional manifold, defined by α(R) = 1 and ιR dα = 0.
Reebok
Reebok, British-founded (1958, from J.W. Foster & Sons) athletic footwear and fitness brand; adidas bought it for $3.8B in 2006, sold to Authentic Brands Group for ~$2.5B in 2021; now run via licensees.
Reebok Pump
Reebok Pump, or The Pump (Performance Under Maximum Pressure), is Reebok's 1989 inflatable-fit basketball shoe invented by Paul Litchfield, priced at $170, made famous by Dee Brown's 1991 dunk contest.
Reebonz
Reebonz was a Singapore-based luxury e-commerce platform selling authenticated new and pre-owned goods, founded in 2009, listed on Nasdaq in 2018, and liquidated in 2021.
Reece Broadhurst
Reece Broadhurst (born 1995) is a British clothing entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of ARNE, the Warrington fashion brand he started with his brother Ryan in 2018.
Reece Dinsdale
Reece Dinsdale (born 1959, Normanton, West Yorkshire) is an English actor and director known for Threads, Home to Roost, I.D., Coronation Street's Joe McIntyre, and directing Emmerdale.
Reece James (footballer, born 1999)
Reece James (Reece Lewis James, born 1999, London) is an English right-back, wing-back and midfielder, Chelsea captain since 2023 and a 2021 Champions League winner, with 29 England caps, a contract to 2032, and a career shaped by recurring hamstring and knee injuries.
Reece Oxford
Reece Oxford (born 1998) is an English defender, West Ham's youngest-ever debutant at 16 years 198 days in 2015, now at Bundesliga club FC Augsburg since 2019.
Reece Ritchie
Reece Ritchie (born 1986, Lowestoft, England) is an English actor known for Moha in 10,000 BC, Ray Singh in The Lovely Bones, Bis in Prince of Persia, Iolaus in Hercules, and Lt. Spencer Lane in Syfy's The Ark.
Reece Shearsmith
Reece Shearsmith (born 1969, Hull), English actor-comedian-writer of The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville, and Inside No. 9 with Steve Pemberton; BAFTA-winning, also Taskmaster series 20 contestant and horror enthusiast.
Reece Walsh
Reece Walsh (born 2002, Southport QLD) is an NRL fullback for the Brisbane Broncos, formerly the New Zealand Warriors; Queensland Maroons Origin debutant 2023, 2025 Clive Churchill Medallist, Kangaroos representative, contracted to 2029.
Reed (plant)
Reed (Phragmites australis), common reed, is a cosmopolitan rhizomatous wetland grass with culms 1–4(–6) m. Native lineages and an invasive European haplotype (M) coexist in North America; it tolerates moderate salinity via leaf osmotic adjustment.
Reed Alexander
Reed Alexander (born 1993) is an American journalist and former child actor from Boca Raton, Florida. He played Nevel Papperman on Nickelodeon's iCarly (2007–2012), then became a Wall Street correspondent for Business Insider and an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Miami.
Reed B. Wickner
Reed B. Wickner is an American biochemist and geneticist at the NIH who proposed in 1994 that the yeast elements [URE3] and [PSI+] are prions.
Reed bed
Reed bed: wetland dominated by common reed (Phragmites australis), over 60% cover. Covers natural fen habitat, rare in Britain, and engineered reed bed systems for wastewater and sludge treatment since 1985.
Reed Birney
Reed Birney (born 1954, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American stage and screen actor, Tony winner for The Humans (2016), known for Playwrights Horizons, House of Cards, and Mass.
Reed boat
A reed boat is a watercraft built from bundles of buoyant reeds lashed with rope, independently developed where reeds grow, from Peru and Lake Titicaca to Iraq and the Nile.