clones 1 of 2

plural of clone

clones

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of clone

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clones
Noun
Delphi's library showcases official clones of famous personalities, who promote newsletters or products while engaging users in personalized conversations. Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 In the eighth season of Rick and Morty, our unscrupulous genius and his teenage companion get into lots more scraps featuring virtual realities, the Easter Bunny, and an entire planet full of their clones. PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025 It's set 152 years following the turbulent events seen in Season 2, when The Foundation has greatly enhanced its influence and the Cleon clones' Galactic Empire is crumbling as Seldon and his paranormal protege Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) have predicted. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Social media has a way of making clones of us – suddenly everyone on your feed has a coveted Labubu, or a Stanley cup, or is trying a wacky viral skincare routine. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025 Because the Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger are essentially identical, save for their engines and some unibody sheet metal beneath the exterior body panels, there exist many misbegotten conversions as well as some quite deceptive clones. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clones
Noun
  • Luminate reports that the decade-old set sold 50,500 copies throughout America in the most recent week.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One accuser, Marina Lacerda, called on the Justice Department to give survivors full unredacted copies of all case files.
    Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There were reporters and photographers all around, clamoring for interviews and pictures.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Hanson has always been a great fashion photographer, especially good at capturing feminine exuberance, but the span of time that has passed since these pictures were taken now establishes them as bona-fide historical artifacts to boot.
    Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And in June, Erdős and Volodymyr Riabov posted a paper that reproduces Yau and Yin’s one-dimensional result for a broader class of band matrices.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Dynamic magnetism model offers insights beyond plutonium By incorporating temperature-dependent magnetic states, the model accurately reproduces the unusual experimental observation that delta-plutonium contracts at high temperatures.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the non-virtual world, some have made physical toy replicas of the characters, while others have created real-life plays featuring them.
    Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • While the original pieces perished in a fire at Rohwer after the war, the replicas remain to give evidence of this student project that developed under her supervision.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At its core, DeFi replicates traditional financial services without banks or intermediaries.
    Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • And in 2024, a team of scientists at Stanford University examined how the COVID-19 virus replicates inside human cells.
    Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The twins are now 24 and the sextuplets are 21.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This hotel is also pet-friendly and offers a number of different room configurations—from double bed studios to suites with a king bed and two twins—to suit solo travellers and groups alike.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The system processed over 100,000 video clips from both real-world recordings and the aforementioned Unreal Engine renders.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The process requires hundreds of delicate manual steps, and any contamination renders a dose unusable.
    Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The main hall in the exhibit features hundreds of images of Native Americans used in popular culture or advertising.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Associated PressThe folders included hundreds of images of court documents dating back years, along with video clips that appeared to show police body camera footage from searches and interviews conducted with victims.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025

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