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as in copies
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 pictures
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 reproduces
to make an exact likeness of
will clone the designer outfit for the ready-to-wear market
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Recent Examples of clones
Jp Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Weaver would return as Ripley in David Fincher's Alien 3 in 1992 and as clones of the character in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection in 1997, though the Alien franchise has continued on.
—Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Delphi's library showcases official clones of famous personalities, who promote newsletters or products while engaging users in personalized conversations.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
In the eighth season of Rick and Morty, our unscrupulous genius and his teenage companion get into lots more scraps featuring virtual realities, the Easter Bunny, and an entire planet full of their clones.
—PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
It's set 152 years following the turbulent events seen in Season 2, when The Foundation has greatly enhanced its influence and the Cleon clones' Galactic Empire is crumbling as Seldon and his paranormal protege Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) have predicted.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Social media has a way of making clones of us – suddenly everyone on your feed has a coveted Labubu, or a Stanley cup, or is trying a wacky viral skincare routine.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Because the Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger are essentially identical, save for their engines and some unibody sheet metal beneath the exterior body panels, there exist many misbegotten conversions as well as some quite deceptive clones.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
Brother Dusk detonates explosives that shatter the cryonic chamber of Cleon clones, bodies raining down in blood and glass, before plucking a single embryo from the wreckage to bait Demerzel’s deepest programming.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Weaver would return as Ripley in David Fincher's Alien 3 in 1992 and as clones of the character in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection in 1997, though the Alien franchise has continued on.
—Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Delphi's library showcases official clones of famous personalities, who promote newsletters or products while engaging users in personalized conversations.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
In the eighth season of Rick and Morty, our unscrupulous genius and his teenage companion get into lots more scraps featuring virtual realities, the Easter Bunny, and an entire planet full of their clones.
—PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
It's set 152 years following the turbulent events seen in Season 2, when The Foundation has greatly enhanced its influence and the Cleon clones' Galactic Empire is crumbling as Seldon and his paranormal protege Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) have predicted.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Social media has a way of making clones of us – suddenly everyone on your feed has a coveted Labubu, or a Stanley cup, or is trying a wacky viral skincare routine.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Because the Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger are essentially identical, save for their engines and some unibody sheet metal beneath the exterior body panels, there exist many misbegotten conversions as well as some quite deceptive clones.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clones
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Luminate reports the set sold 9,400 copies in the United States last frame, up from under 400 the period prior.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Calligraphers like Mustapha produce sacred work, such as copies of the Quran, books of religious poetry, and amulets.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Sep. 2025
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Lord entered the truck in competitions in Louisiana and Texas and loved to park it in front of the Henderson building to take pictures of it, Michelle said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Sep. 2025
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Some of my friends were pressured to send inappropriate pictures, contacted by strangers, and exposed to content way beyond our age.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
12 Sep. 2025
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And in June, Erdős and Volodymyr Riabov posted a paper that reproduces Yau and Yin’s one-dimensional result for a broader class of band matrices.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Aug. 2025
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Dynamic magnetism model offers insights beyond plutonium By incorporating temperature-dependent magnetic states, the model accurately reproduces the unusual experimental observation that delta-plutonium contracts at high temperatures.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Aug. 2025
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Generations of scientists have dedicated their careers to sculpting increasingly sophisticated planetary replicas.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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The paper also highlights the potential of digital twins — virtual patient replicas that allow doctors to simulate treatments before applying them in real life.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Story could use Trajeckt, a pitching machine that replicates the arsenal of every pitcher in the league.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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The poster starts by making some chirping noises, which the cat replicates.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The paper also highlights the potential of digital twins — virtual patient replicas that allow doctors to simulate treatments before applying them in real life.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Cadence has expanded this technology beyond chip design towards creating digital twins of data centers including all the functional components.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The company probably didn't mean to draw attention to the fact that Liquid Glass occasionally renders the boundaries between different parts of a window indistinct, fomenting border disputes.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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What To Know China's Chang Guang Satellite Technology shared images taken by its Jilin-1 satellites on September 8, showing a Maxar Technologies WorldView Legion 2 satellite.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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He was arrested following a 33-hour manhunt after his parents recognized surveillance images of the suspect released by police and convinced him, with the help of a family friend, to turn himself in.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Clones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clones. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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