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duplicated

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verb

past tense of duplicate
1
as in copied
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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2
as in replicated
to make or do again we were unable to duplicate the experiment in our own lab, so we're suspicious

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Recent Examples of duplicated
Adjective
This creates duplicated infrastructure, inconsistent models, and operational complexity. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026 The duplicated sets and near-complete location builds enable the filmmakers to make the most of Carol’s house as a setting. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
Verb
During a time when AI is automating more routine tasks, Kantenga emphasized that human skills that can’t be duplicated by tech are increasingly important. Courtney Connley-Hampton, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Those figures likely included people who have been incommunicado due to the lack of cellphone signals, and some reports may be duplicated. 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 And none of those players ever really duplicated their numbers once leaving Tampa Bay. John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2026 But nobody has duplicated his monetary success—or built two separate businesses that are so wildly profitable. Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 Because that kind of exposure, Wann said, creates a deeper allegiance that might be duplicated with the World Cup legacy here. Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026 This year, staff extracted ballots by hand, reducing the number that needed to be duplicated. Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026 Then, at some point in the distant past, the system’s genes were duplicated. Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicated
Adjective
  • Alves described how black-and-white prints with a photocopied feel, Japanese and Chinese-inspired graphics and animal prints transform basic jeans into pieces worthy of going viral online.
    Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Apatow had with him a chaotic pile of notes—scrawled by hand, photocopied, clearly out of order, some upside down.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The thing being copied is the asset.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The tempo was so precise and the drums were copied exactly.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • Infrastructure must be replicated and tailored to meet regional requirements in a global landscape.
    Sanjay Ghare, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • That number traces back to a 2002 PET study with eight participants,4 and it has not been widely replicated, Alcaide noted.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • Crawford, playing his 1,000th career game, doubled to start the bottom of the sixth for the first hit of the night.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, the increase jobs with AI as a prerequisite has more than doubled.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 July 2026
Adjective
  • The transcribed interview is a test of how much scrutiny lawmakers will apply to powerful men who kept company with Epstein even after his conviction.
    Stephen Groves, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • The Microsoft co‑founder is scheduled to sit for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on June 10, a source familiar with the proceedings confirmed to USA TODAY.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The watch revives the brand’s iconic A384 case from 1969, faithfully reproduced in its distinctive 37mm tonneau shape.
    Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • There are parts of her practice that can easily be reproduced.
    Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Ramírez then repeated one of the lines from his viral video expressing gratitude for Mexico’s newfound joy.
    Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • Having real and repeated connections with a Nationals player like Cavalli could connect the team more with the people closest to it.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • The number of animals in his care has multiplied since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, as hundreds of thousands of southern Lebanon residents fled and were unable to take their pets or farm animals.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • Beside the foreign brigades and their dogs, Venezuelan teams like K-Sar Ecid worked as peers; the collaboration multiplied what neither could have achieved alone.
    Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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