Meanings
- not comparableHappening again, after having happened numerous other times.
Superman saved the day, yet again.
4 more examples
Late to class yet again, Mr. Potter?
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 23:35She expected to coax me at once: she'll not manage that in one effort: she shall come again, again, and yet again.
1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “(please specify the page)”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLCSince falling in love with Brake, and since their separation, these evening hours had become even more desolating, particularly since Grace knew he was somewhere in the house, pacing the library or the drawing room and talking about the things which interested not only him but her too, the unending fascination of colour, of trying to reshape nature, of seeing with the heart, while she sat trapped in a room under the roof mending the children's clothes and half-listening yet again to Dora's ill-determined plans to escape somehow from her servitude to find fame in the music halls.
2011, Charlotte Bingham, NannySynonyms: as usual, as always, once again, once more
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbHappening again, after having happened numerous other times.
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