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as in copies
something that is made to look exactly like something else
the car is a clone under a different brand name—it's even manufactured in the same plant as its cousin
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as in pictures
something or someone that strongly resembles another
the new television series is a clone of half a dozen police procedurals already on the air
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as in reproduces
to make an exact likeness of
will clone the designer outfit for the ready-to-wear market
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Recent Examples of clones
Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
Then, like a rhizomatous plant, its tentacles have spread, producing clones around the world.
—Dennis Hinkamp, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
But surrounding yourself with emotional clones won’t build resilience—it’ll just reinforce your stress.
—Marc Brackett, Time, 21 Sep. 2025
Deepfakes and synthetic voice clones are now attack vectors.
—Jason Crawforth, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
No more clones means no succession and the Empire dies at dusk.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
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
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
Noun
The new policies also include more explicit bans on unauthorized AI voice clones and deepfakes.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
Then, like a rhizomatous plant, its tentacles have spread, producing clones around the world.
—Dennis Hinkamp, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
But surrounding yourself with emotional clones won’t build resilience—it’ll just reinforce your stress.
—Marc Brackett, Time, 21 Sep. 2025
Deepfakes and synthetic voice clones are now attack vectors.
—Jason Crawforth, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
No more clones means no succession and the Empire dies at dusk.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clones
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Bible sales through August 2025 reached 10 million copies, marking an increase of more than one million compared to the same period last year, according to BookScan.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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The plaintiffs in each case -- the ACLU and Washington State attorney general -- provided ABC News with copies of the government's filings.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Boltaev’s photographs were printed onto ceramic tiles and placed on brick walls so that pictures were not only seen but touched.—
Dada Jovanovic,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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Hawley even reproduces the kidnapping scene from the film, but with Dorothy as the intended kidnapee.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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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
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While genuine antiques from the Ming dynasty can fetch millions at auction, many later reproductions and export pieces from the 18th to 20th centuries still carry significant value.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The new tissues scored higher on tactile feedback and cutting response than conventional replicas.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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And walking back onto those exact replicas of our sets was like a time tunnel.—
THR Staff,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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One prime example of this is a system that replicates focus groups.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
29 Sep. 2025
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Autopen defined An autopen is a device that mechanically replicates a signature.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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The reality of the twins’ situation overtook her life in every way, Alisha describes.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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The film also starred Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker and Armie Hammer as the Winklevoss twins.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Sep. 2025
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Concerns that safe storage renders guns insufficiently accessible during emergencies is valid, experts told CNN in a 2021 report.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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This level of violence renders concerns about AI’s racial biases in beauty technology trivial by comparison.—
Essence,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Clones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clones. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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