I enjoyed reading an article from DailyWritingTips about redundant word combinations.

Besides sounding foolish, the practice of bolstering a word with a a word that replicates its meaning weakens the expressiveness of the language.

Although this is bad writing practice, I found most of the examples pretty humorous, so here they are for your enjoyment:

• return back
• progress forward
• forests of trees
• other alternatives
• continue on
• evacuated out
• regress back
• penetrate through
• speeding too fast
• refinanced again
• a human person
• charred black
• a baby nursery
• reiterate again
• fast forward ahead
• socialize together
• two twin towers
• a navy sailor
• an army soldier
• coupled together with
• adequate enough
• a free gift

And of course the all-time classic from Yogi Berra: “like ‘deja vu’ all over again.”