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
  • The poster starts by making some chirping noises, which the cat replicates.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The fractured narrative replicates the characters’ fractured perspectives.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 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 current system of revisions renders an important set of numbers impossible to use.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To put it mildly, Longo is disheartened by the political climate, by the bullying and attacks on democracy, by war, by the language that renders America as a sports team.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The chain of landforms to the west of Kauai is so small that it was not easily spotted in the satellite images taken as Kiko roared across the Pacific toward Hawaii as a Category 4 hurricane.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Miami Gardens Police released images of dogs in the neighborhood suspected to have been involved in the attack.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Clones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clones. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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