Who is afraid of repeating themselves? Who? I feared at one point sounding dumb because of word repetitions within a paragraph, sentence, or even essay. I have bad memories of the word 'endeavor' from the book "Frankenstein." If you can endeavor down the stairs, back up, then endeavor to take the out the trash, all the while endeavoring the scenery with your eyes, then you have authority to repeat yourself as often as you care to endeavor.
I looked it up, and to my surprise, underneath coherence is a section on repeating words, and how it can be good. I agree. My advice is to repeat whatever you want and see if it flows. If it sounds overdrawn and you've overdrawn a word, then redraw your sentence. If you hit it just right, between novice and professional, right between reminding and killing, keep it, don't kill it, you got it right.
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