I have a personal quirk when editing, in that I keep track of how many paragraphs begin with the same word. If I see three or more, I recast to change structure. (We know that repetition can be used with purpose, but this is more often accidental and therefore subject to change.) I do the same with sentences within paragraphs, but there I'm l looking for SV structures. If every sentence is built the same, readers get bored.
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