How to Use duplication in a Sentence
duplication
noun- He sent the manuscript out for duplication.
- Please eliminate duplication when combining the lists.
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This is why most genome duplications get lost to time.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 19 May 2026
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What might look like a non-event is in fact an attempt to avoid a duplication of effort.
—The Economist, 28 June 2018
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Under the law, both systems get to weigh in on whether there’s duplication.
—Cal Matters, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
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That figure is small for a deal this size because there is little duplication by which to cut costs.
—Leslie Picker, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2016
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If the Bills see him that way, too, there would be too much duplication of skills with Shakir.
—Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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That shift does more than reduce duplication.
—Gelila, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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With this rapid growth there has been duplication of roles and job functions in certain areas.
—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
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The largest cost of sorting the duplication out would be the human cost, Williams said.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
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Perri said that type of duplication is not allowed under case law.
—Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022
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Erickson devised more than three dozen puzzles to avoid too much duplication from one hunt to the next.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
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Look for alignment, duplication and unclear value in the process flow.
—Graham Peelle, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Since the Pixel is Google’s phone, that type of app duplication isn’t a problem.
—Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 11 Dec. 2017
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My first step would be to list all vendors and meet with the team to identify frustrations, duplications, and pain points.
—Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
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Maul said the Red Cross closed chapters to reduce duplication.
—Douglas MacMillan, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
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One item duplication glitch works by quickly swapping out the items fused to Link’s arrows, but that’s the slow and very finicky way.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 22 May 2023
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This can be done by looking for areas where there is a lot of manual work, duplication of effort or long delays.
—Sunil Ranka, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
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William observes that there seems to be some barrier—something about the mind that resists duplication.
—Sandra Upson, WIRED, 14 May 2018
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Data that take the form of images (blots) have their own set of 'tells', namely duplication and splicing of parts of the image.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2015
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Shulkin said one of the jobs of the new accountability office will be to make sure there’s no duplication of effort.
—Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
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The duplication begins with the two strands of DNA pulling apart like a zipper.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
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An update made in one part of the ecosystem shouldn't require manual duplication in a dozen others.
—Charles Wong, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Retrantransposons make a copy and shuttle that replica to its new home, expanding the size of the genome with each duplication.
—Megan Molteni, Wired, 7 July 2020
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And, of course, in mergers, job cuts often come in areas where there is duplication between the two companies.
—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 10 Jan. 2020
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That includes the kind of large-scale duplication used during AI training.
—Tor Constantino, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
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So, that’s the easy one, when the project is really big, really risky, too expensive to do on your own, too much duplication.
—Harvard Business Review, 17 July 2024
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The process is designed to control increasing health care costs and prevent the duplication of services.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2025
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Computer duplication is only one way that the Concorde is planned as the world's safest aircraft.
—J. A. Maxtone Graham, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020
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Remember, though, that the point of the prevention, duplication, and backup steps are to give you options.
—Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 13 May 2017
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