as in copied
to make an exact likeness of
will clone the designer outfit for the ready-to-wear market
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Recent Examples of cloned
His estate cloned his voice and is now producing titles with a zombie narrator.
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Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
It can’t be scaled endlessly or cloned through code.
—Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
In this special, Foxx addresses these swirling rumors—wild speculations that he had been cloned or even died—with a candidness that feels both refreshing and necessary.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Dec. 2024
What are the conditions under which they are bred or cloned and raised?
—Mandy Nguyen, Vox, 30 Nov. 2024
The voice and animation lipsync can be cloned to make the character speak in any language.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
It can’t be scaled endlessly or cloned through code.
—Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
In this special, Foxx addresses these swirling rumors—wild speculations that he had been cloned or even died—with a candidness that feels both refreshing and necessary.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Dec. 2024
What are the conditions under which they are bred or cloned and raised?
—Mandy Nguyen, Vox, 30 Nov. 2024
The voice and animation lipsync can be cloned to make the character speak in any language.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloned
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The Education Department's press office declined an interview request for this story in an unsigned email that was copied to agency officials Madison Biedermann, Savannah Newhouse, Julie Hartman, and Ellen Keast.—
Fred Clasen-Kelly,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Known for her sharp, irregular, and asymmetrical pieces, sometimes appearing almost woven, Rae-Smith has seen her aesthetic evolve, and even copied.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.—
Alan Lightman
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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But this plan ignores the fact that an interlocked ecology cannot be reproduced by just relocating some species.—
M. Rajshekhar,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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To commemorate the occasion, Heaven Hill has bottled a whiskey that could be made by no other distillery, and can’t even be replicated by Heaven Hill itself.—
Tony Sachs,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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At 24 years old, the movement-as-minute hand remains a design gesture no one has truly replicated.—
Thor Svaboe,
Robb Report,
9 Sep. 2025
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All of this is rendered with stunning ease by his VFX team, in scenes that look like a news bulletin from the apocalypse.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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Here, Ne Zha 2 succeeds wildly; locales such as a heavenly city made entirely of jade and a towering, bamboo-verdant waterfall are rendered with genuinely beautiful texture and detail.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Cloned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloned. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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