1
as in to reproduce
to make an exact likeness of reduplicate a recording of the concert for my friend

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as in to repeat
to make or do again found out halfway through the project that I was reduplicating another team member's efforts, so we had to figure out who was going to do what

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Verb
  • In an exchange reproduced on screen, a fan asked Stause about her rift with Hernan.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The nonstick surface that develops over years of use is invaluable, and not easy to reproduce.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
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  • The score consists of fifty-three melodic cells in and around the key of C; the performers are directed to move through these cells at their own pace, repeating them at will before moving on to the next.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Looking to repeat, the Gators own the best frontcourt in college basketball thanks to Thomas Haugh, Alex Condon, Rueben Chinyelu and Micah Handlogten returning.
    Scott Phillips, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • Yet Fulton County officials have still insisted the ballots could not be copied or released.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Promoter sequences are short stretches of DNA that tell the cell’s copying machinery where a new protein starts.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Given chances to replicate his pivots toward moderation on subjects like Wall Street, housing, and policing, Mamdani did not bend on the Middle East.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In a similar vein, Timnit Gebru, a computer scientist writing during her time working at Google, warned of the dangers of large language models acting as stochastic parrots, which repeat language patterns without understanding, and in doing so replicate the biases embedded in their training data.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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  • For the monks or clerics, it is presented as a material substance, carried like a sack of gold on the demon’s back; the metaphors used are monetary or economic, as though the monks owe ordered syllables to God instead of the monetary tithe their vows of poverty render unnecessary.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Black can then be found on the tongue and laces, while the midsole is rendered in off-white.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • His original announcement on October 13 stated his contract was simply not being renewed, but this new report confirms the non-renewal has been escalated to an early termination.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Grossmont board declined to renew the contract of Christian Wallis, its previous chief executive, in March without providing a public reason for the dismissal.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Art imitating life a little bit.
    Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That work led to the Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD), which could imitate human responses to simple audiovisual patterns like flashes and clicks.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Dolphins won six of eight after that rough start last season, and the team hopes that turnaround can be duplicated.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The cameo feature, which allows your child’s likeness to be potentially duplicated in video form, and misused.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Reduplicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduplicate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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