cloned

past tense of clone

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Recent Examples of cloned The United States’ Homeland Security Investigations targeted the original Streameast site in 2024 but multiple copycat sites sprang up after that, including the one at the centre of this case, which cloned its characteristics. Adam Leventhal, New York Times, 21 July 2026 Britney Spears’ son Jayden is shutting down the rumors that his mom has been cloned. Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 19 July 2026 One intrepid reporter journeys into the nondescript building where Hollywood’s biggest stars can be digitally cloned. Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026 In 2014, a hacker claimed to have cloned a fingerprint of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, then Germany’s defence minister, using close-up photos taken at a press event. Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 29 June 2026 The reason Dunnhumby could not be cloned was not that the math was hard. Aneesh Reddy, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 Popolis said it was cloned from the first of the witness lindens to come down in 1993, with help from the Morton Arboretum. Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026 This is why fruit crops are almost always propagated vegetatively, or cloned, rather than grown from seed. Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026 In 2014, a hacker reportedly claimed to have cloned a fingerprint of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, then Germany's defense minister, using close-up photos taken at a press event. Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloned
Verb
  • On April 22, investigators determined that the attacker had copied personal information.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Where products can be copied and technologies commoditized, sensory resonance creates a physiological memory that will beg to be repeated.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Even companies that are a step closer to infrastructure, including Jasper and Tome, remain exposed the moment model providers ship the same feature, proof that sitting lower in the stack rescues nobody when the layer itself can be reproduced.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • But the deeper misconception, Zacharia and other scholars say, is that there exists a single, correct ancient world the film could have reproduced.
    Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • What companies got instead were expensive, narrowly scoped models that replicated individual assets in impressive detail but couldn't tell you much about how the business worked.
    Richard Clough, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Earnings growth was driven in part by large, one-time equity gains in their ownership of companies such as Anthropic and SpaceX , which may not be replicated in the coming quarters.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Officers rendered medical aid until paramedics arrived and took over treatment.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • While her actual dress featured puffy sleeves rendered in ivory silk taffeta, the backup dress had slimmer sleeves and was made out of white silk.
    Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Unfortunately, this information is frequently disconnected, duplicated or difficult to access.
    Monica Hovsepian, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Security camera footage showed Hill and the three others presenting merchandise not purchased at TJX stores to return with altered or duplicated receipts, according to court documents.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 10 July 2026

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“Cloned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloned. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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