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as in twin
something or someone that strongly resembles another
this new digital camera is a carbon of a well-known model costing almost twice as much
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as in copy
something that is made to look exactly like something else
the bell tower is a carbon of an earlier one that toppled in an earthquake
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Recent Examples of carbon
His policies have included fighting the opioid crisis, creating more affordable housing and reducing carbon emissions.
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Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The large carbon release at the beginning of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum clearly resulted in major global warming.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Behind a fold-down panel on the bottom half of the front is a removable carbon filter, a Menu button, and a Return button.
—PC Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
Lower-mass stars like the Sun, with their cooler cores, can sustain fusion only up to carbon.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
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Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The large carbon release at the beginning of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum clearly resulted in major global warming.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Behind a fold-down panel on the bottom half of the front is a removable carbon filter, a Menu button, and a Return button.
—PC Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
Lower-mass stars like the Sun, with their cooler cores, can sustain fusion only up to carbon.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carbon
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The paper also highlights the potential of digital twins — virtual patient replicas that allow doctors to simulate treatments before applying them in real life.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Cadence has expanded this technology beyond chip design towards creating digital twins of data centers including all the functional components.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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That’s more than 500 equivalent copies from the period before, with more than 2,400 of those being pure sales.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Calligraphers like Mustapha produce sacred work, such as copies of the Quran, books of religious poetry, and amulets.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Sep. 2025
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Hey Alexa, create an image of traders popping champagne in the New York Stock Exchange.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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In images taken from the Israel-Gaza border on Tuesday, plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the city, which is the largest in the Gaza Strip.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
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The findings are changing the way scientists understand ant reproduction, showing that ants can produce individuals of another species as part of their life cycle.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Through pollination, insects enable the reproduction of flowering plants, including many that form the base of food chains or are agriculturally important to humans.—
Thomas Westerholm,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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There is also an actual mechanical shark that visitors can manipulate, albeit a scale replica.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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One of the new additions to the lobby is a replica of a 1925 chandelier, recreated by artisans from photos that were discovered of the original ornate light fixture.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Weaver would return as Ripley in David Fincher's Alien 3 in 1992 and as clones of the character in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection in 1997, though the Alien franchise has continued on.—
Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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But the clues as to what was happening were written on the images, allowing mission personnel to experiment on a clone of the camera, in a laboratory setting.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Sep. 2025
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In a picture released by the Shin Bet, Defense Minister Israel Katz and Netanyahu’s chief of staff are seen peering over his shoulders.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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Think an agent managing a sales pipeline by combining CRM data, support tickets, and financial reports to deliver a full customer picture.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Analysts like him would pore over positive duplicates of negatives, examining them under a micro-stereoscope to see sites in three dimensions.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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Clean up messy data, remove duplicates and make sure everything follows a consistent format.—
Samuel Darwin,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Carbon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbon. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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