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as in copy
something that is made to look exactly like something else
the car is a clone under a different brand name—it's even manufactured in the same plant as its cousin
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as in replica
something or someone that strongly resembles another
the new television series is a clone of half a dozen police procedurals already on the air
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as in to copy
to make an exact likeness of
will clone the designer outfit for the ready-to-wear market
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Recent Examples of clone
Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Meta, meanwhile, is working on an AI clone for its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, that will respond to employees in his absence.
—Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Camarena, who told detectives he had been genetically cloned in Orange County, was sentenced to life in prison for that assault.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Other characters the writer co-created during this time are the supervillain Jackal and Parker’s clone Ben Reilly.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Meta, meanwhile, is working on an AI clone for its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, that will respond to employees in his absence.
—Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
Visuomotor learning—especially behavior cloning from human demonstrations—is helping bridge this gap, enabling robots to perform complex tasks in challenging conditions without explicit programming.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Camarena, who told detectives he had been genetically cloned in Orange County, was sentenced to life in prison for that assault.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clone
Noun
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Destinee Adams wrote the copy for this piece.—
Michel Martin,
NPR,
13 May 2026
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Ability to quickly attach physical copies of your work to your records.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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That, of course, is the same plate seen on the show, and the same one on the Volo Museum's replica.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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Adult shirts are £85 for replicas, £12o for authentic cuts (closer to what players wear in games), and £130 for the authentic long sleeve version.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
Verb
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According to the specs, the Spectra 6 can reproduce up to 60,000 colors with better saturation and contrast than any previous e-ink tech.—
Joe Salas
May 17,
New Atlas,
17 May 2026
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The moisture can create a perfect haven, if bacteria is present, to reproduce when the baked potato cools down while wrapped in foil and hits a temperature of 135 F to 41 F.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
16 May 2026
Noun
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Another painting in the cycle had been replaced by a yellowing photographic reproduction.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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The stigma tied to conditions framed primarily around reproduction—especially those that are often misdiagnosed or undertreated—can also affect a patient's mental health over time.—
Abby Norman,
Verywell Health,
14 May 2026
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Additional images showed an unknown number of snakes curled on top of one another inside a large crate that was placed in the back of an officer’s vehicle.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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While Washington was private about his Anglican beliefs and a supporter of religious freedom for all faiths, Christian nationalists have been reviving the image, and with it, the claim that the US is an inherently Christian nation at its origin.—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
15 May 2026
Verb
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Back to my Taylor Sheirdan example, none of those wannabe Yellowstone shows have been as good, because his unique voice can’t be replicated.—
Derek Lawrence,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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That decision — to rebuild rather than replicate — is the real story of what separates the companies pulling ahead with AI from the ones that aren’t.—
Dennis Woodside,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
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Also, one of the things my co-composer, Joseph Shirley, and I were tasked with doing was coming up with a sound for when the twins are engaging in telepathy, speaking to each other with their minds.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
19 May 2026
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The twins began high school that fall.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
19 May 2026
Verb
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The beautiful array of their divergent sizes and pelts coalesced as oils on canvas and rendered their exploits almost dreamlike.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Nvidia’s GPUs, first developed in 1999 for rendering graphics on computers and gaming consoles, function by breaking complex computing problems into smaller tasks and resolving them simultaneously.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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“Clone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clone. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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