as in identical
resembling another in every respect
duplicate copies of the portrait that were painted by the artist himself
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as in image
something or someone that strongly resembles another
doll carriages that are duplicates of baby carriages
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as in copy
something that is made to look exactly like something else
a duplicate of a house key
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as in to copy
to make an exact likeness of
art students trying to duplicate paintings in the museum's collection as part of their training
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Recent Examples of duplicate
Gary Singer,
Sun Sentinel,
28 May 2026
The first is waste—duplicate data entry, manual routing, status-chasing, disconnected systems.
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Jeromee Johnson,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Imran Aftab,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Every pack of stickers is random, so collectors end up with duplicates.
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Erin Jones,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Arkansas Online,
28 June 2026
Those figures likely included people who have been incommunicado due to the lack of cellphone signals, and some reports may be duplicated.
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Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
27 June 2026
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Adjective
Sometimes, associations make accounting errors or record duplicate charges in the ledger.
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Gary Singer,
Sun Sentinel,
28 May 2026
The first is waste—duplicate data entry, manual routing, status-chasing, disconnected systems.
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Jeromee Johnson,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Noun
Datasets with issues like poor formatting, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, biases and duplicates are inherently bad.
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Imran Aftab,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Every pack of stickers is random, so collectors end up with duplicates.
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Erin Jones,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Verb
Those figures likely included people who have been incommunicado due to the lack of cellphone signals, and some reports may be duplicated.
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Arkansas Online,
28 June 2026
Those figures likely included people who have been incommunicado due to the lack of cellphone signals, and some reports may be duplicated.
—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
27 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicate
Adjective
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The lineup is essentially identical to that of the nation's game against Croatia on Tuesday.
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An employee running fifty unchecked queries looks identical, on a dashboard, to one running five after working the problem first.
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Cops released an image of him aboard the bus wearing a white hoodie and are asking the public’s help tracking him down.
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Some satellite images even show evidence of fire damage, consistent with reports of firefighters supporting the emergency response.
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The early copy remained tucked away in Britain’s National Archives until a volunteer cataloging records from the American Revolutionary War came across it in May among the papers of Royal Navy captains.
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Julia Giarmoleo, an EPA spokesperson, said the monitors did not detect elevated metals, but would not provide a copy of the data without a federal records request.
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Unlike conventional gaming headsets that primarily separate audio into left and right channels, Spherephones reproduces sound from above, below, behind, and in front of the user.
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As for one of the franchise's other biggest mysteries — how the characters reproduce — Coffin has a simple answer.
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Yet many could still replicate portions of its economic evolution by broadening participation, encouraging private enterprise, welcoming additional foreign investors, and leveraging competition among outside powers to secure more favorable outcomes.
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After some more tweaking and optimizing, the cell started growing and replicating its DNA.
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Crawford also doubled to lead off the sixth, but Chandler worked his way out of that jam, striking out both Turner and Kyle Schwarber, then retiring Harper on a soft grounder to second.
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For many state workers, the return-to-office order means doubling their weekly commute after nearly six years of hybrid work.
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The arrests come a few weeks after 12 men were taken into custody in a similar sting operation in Miami-Dade.
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The Boyle Heights blaze, similar to the Eaton and Palisades fires, has revealed the region’s air monitoring can’t always tell people what they’ve been exposed to in a disaster.
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The left is reserved for Mediheal, the Korean brand behind the viral Madecassoside Blemish toner pads, with a larger-than-life replica of the cyan box sitting next to the window.
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Patrons can enjoy a piece of birthday cake and sign a giant replica of the Declaration of Independence, according to the Arkansas Heritage webpage for the event.
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“Duplicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicate. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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