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Within the United States, the "American Idol" phenomenon spawned a host of competing shows such as NBC's "The Voice," CBS's "Rock Star", and Fox's "The X Factor."

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Reduplication
Like many Australian languages, Marra has a process known as reduplication, where some or all of a stem is repeated. With human nouns, reduplication takes the meaning of three or more of that noun, such as , "three or more old people" from , "old person", and a few topographic nouns can be reduplicated to mean the collective plural, as in , "islands".

With both human and non-human nouns, reduplication along with the pergressive case suffix can create the meaning "having X" or "having lots of X", as in , "having a woman" (being a married man) from , "woman".

A few verb stems also display partial reduplication to indicate a repeated action, as in , "he repeatedly tied it or them up" as opposed to , "he was