How to Use clone in a Sentence
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But a strong team isn’t full of clones.
—Hannah Martinez, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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The clone of the tree that grew from a seed that went to the moon doesn’t look like much.
—Penelope Green Balarama Heller, New York Times, 14 July 2023
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Like alien clones of the people her parents are now.
—Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
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Would an audio clone of my father’s voice mean the same to me?
—Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
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No artist should have to compete against their own unpaid clone.
—Gerard Scimeca, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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Words that mean mirror image or clone.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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The trees spread through root shoots, so those clusters are clones of each other.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2023
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At the same time, Sophos says that Thor is a clone of Kratos.
—George Yang, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
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Police said thieves use the port to clone data held by the car owner's key fob.
—Joe Holden, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
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The clone only lived for a few minutes and died because of a lung defect.
—Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023
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This movie is not just a female clone of Superman.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Dec. 2025
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As a clone of Joan of Arc, you’d be morbid too if you were burned at the stake.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
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No more clones means no succession and the Empire dies at dusk.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
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As far as the profile goes, a Young clone probably isn’t in the cards.
—Mike Kaye march 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 Mar. 2026
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However, the voice clone is only part of the attack.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
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A lot of people today on social media look like clones of each other.
—Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 12 July 2023
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In response, the singer’s clone shakes her head in disappointment.
—Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
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That’s why this album opened the door for all the Eighties bar-band faux-Bruce clones.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
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There are multiple clones of Erin and there is one clone of KJ.
—ELLE, 29 July 2022
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Each tree is a clone stem of the same plant, all connected by an underground network of roots.
—Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
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Recently, my team built a working clone of Google Sheets in a few days.
—Zach Lloyd, Fortune, 13 May 2026
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Despite that effort, Angier dies, but a new clone is added to his ranks.
—Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
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In some cases, the clones even lost an entire copy of their X chromosome.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
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Users can create a voice clone with as little as 45 seconds of audio.
—Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
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But these jailbirds aren’t using their own fingers to fire off missives or create clones.
—Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
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His memory comes to an end as the clones spot Grogu in his hiding spot and move toward him.
—Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
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That means that all offspring are clones of their mother, sharing precisely the same genes.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
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But in the four years since its launch, not a single automaker has made a Cybertruck clone.
—Carlton Reid, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
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The original Maya, who provided the donor cells for the clone, died of old age last year.
—Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
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And the real challenge at the end of the day with cloning is who's going to do the work of parenting that clone?
—Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 26 July 2023
- Do you think scientists should clone humans?
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Some of the ancient grapes had been cloned.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2026
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If you were cloned, would the clone have the same sense of humor as you?
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2019
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It can’t be scaled endlessly or cloned through code.
—Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Master Zindt will not respawn and clone himself a bunch of times.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
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But the idea of cloning my father’s voice is repulsive to me.
—Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
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The reason Dunnhumby could not be cloned was not that the math was hard.
—Aneesh Reddy, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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Whole categories get cloned on a weekend.
—Ankur Shah, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
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There is a workaround that requires you to clone the flow and select a new trigger.
—Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
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Gardeners dug these variants and took them to the greenhouse to clone them.
—Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
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The authors claim these strains could have been used as a template to clone a deadlier virus.
—Monique Brouillette, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2020
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Some social media users are claiming these tests can clone humans, too.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2022
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For high-profile figures, the stakes of being cloned couldn’t be higher.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2025
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The grove’s adult trees resprout over and over by cloning, and some of them are likely to be many thousands of years old.
—Maddie Stone, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2020
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There were no anchor stores or national chains that make actual malls look like they were cloned.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
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What does ruthlessly cloning the same mouse tell us about our biology?
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
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Avoid third-party sites that host cloned or tampered versions of popular apps.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
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Being able to clone themselves, in effect, might allow big stars to take an even bigger share of the pie.
—The Economist, 5 July 2018
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Genies Avatars are NFTs, so no one is able to clone you and rob a bank.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
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To clone your tomato plant, remove shoots that grow in the crotches between between main stems and side shoots.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
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Preserving tissue while the pet is alive improves cloning success rates.
—Ryan Brennan march 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
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Scientists used a bacterium to clone each piece of the genome, and then studied them in smaller groups.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
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But today, sophisticated tools are out there that can be used to read your smart key, and clone the signal.
—Chaya Milchtein, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2021
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After that, the larvae settle into the sand and begin to clone themselves.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
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Building a training set for cloning Herzog's voice was the easiest part of the process.
—Giacomo Miceli, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2023
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The engine control unit stores a copy of the wireless key code, and thieves can clone this to a blank key fob to use to start the victim’s car.
—Doug Jacobson, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
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Scammers only need a short audio clip to clone a voice and then claim a family member is in distress.
—Brian Greenberg, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Rather than cloning Twitch, the other video platforms are crafting their own identities.
—Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2020
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Decades later, plans to clone Asiatic cheetahs also came to naught.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
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The artistic challenge, of course, is transformation, not cloning.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
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