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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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She soon hired a house manager who would do anything that she herself would do if she had a clone.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence companies attempted to clone American AI models by funneling real Chinese user queries to them via a network of intermediate platforms, Anthropic said in a report published Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Ultimately, trying to clone Obama is likely to be a fool’s errand.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Researchers then compared the receptor sequences from each participant's dominant CD4 CTL clone with sequences stored in a public database.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

The whole story came out about MacGregor’s clone and Tom’s part in luring Maria to see it.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

The sport now cultivates clones of Mr. Ryan throwing as hard as possible with maximum spin on the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

These reconstructions allowed them to trace the origins of cancer clones, groups of genetically identical cells that later contributed to disease progression.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

“While we do not see Meta abandoning its pursuit of AGI/ ChatGPT clones, we think this could be the first catalyst to more rational spending,” he added.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Within months, it entered the mainstream lexicon as a way to describe any AI-generated synthetic media that realistically clones a person’s image or voice.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

And soon they’d even be able to use the first-ever clones of human cells, something they’d been working toward for years.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

The Independent Office for Police Conduct said the Passat was believed to be using cloned registration plates.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

But what’s happened since is so shocking that you’d be forgiven for wondering if Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski had been cloned in a lab at MIT.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

But his highest level of fame came from playing a thoughtful paleontologist summoned to an island off Costa Rica full of cloned dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” in 1993.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

It's simple science - if you surround your key with metal, it blocks the signal so the key can't be cloned.

From BBC Feb. 7, 2026

I started saying it was just Henrietta’s cells scientists had cloned, not Henrietta herself.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

As high-quality synthetic re-creations become cheap and accessible, cloning has become a more desirable option for studios struggling with runaway production costs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Online reactions to news of Hostin’s cloning were fierce.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Sceptics initially saw the cloning as "taboo" disruptions of nature, Shoichi Ikeno, head of local diving company Lagoon, told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Equine cloning is gaining popularity in horse sports, with clones and their offspring emerging in top competitions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

“But if they cloning her cells, does that mean someday they could clone my mother?”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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