cloning

verb

present participle of clone
as in copying
to make an exact likeness of will clone the designer outfit for the ready-to-wear market

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Recent Examples of cloning The possibility of cloning the Peruvian system in Venezuela also ignores how long the process took. — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026 The Overton window for acceptable AI use in Hollywood continues to widen as Hollywood actors, television hosts, and influencers embrace cloning with protections and compensation. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026 Then reporters started cloning their own voices and walking straight in. — Sebastian Dobrincu, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Live Share handles real-time collaboration, letting teammates edit and debug together without cloning repos or matching local environments first. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 24 July 2026 The tree, which survives by cloning itself, is also considered culturally vital to the Kizh Nation, an Indigenous group. — Adam England, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026 And sure, animals such as starfish and flatworms can reproduce by cloning themselves—but at the end of the day, in most species, the survival of animals rests on their mothers. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 10 May 2026 In August 2024, a collective of voice actors and authors sued ElevenLabs for allegedly cloning voices without consent by using copyrighted audiobooks as training material. — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 29 Apr. 2026 Visuomotor learning—especially behavior cloning from human demonstrations—is helping bridge this gap, enabling robots to perform complex tasks in challenging conditions without explicit programming. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloning
  1. copying
  2. reproducing
  3. rendering
  4. replicating
Verb
  • Even more concerning, the fake installer shows one command on the screen while secretly copying another.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Founder Yang Tao said the goal extends beyond copying human anatomy.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of copying
Verb
  • Turning chemical signals into digital instructions Recreating smell presents a different challenge from reproducing images or sound.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The likelier explanation, Seth said, is that the models have absorbed a great deal of information about how humans describe and respond to pain and are reproducing it.
    — Shae Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of reproducing
Verb
  • First responders arrived on site to find community members rendering medical aid to those who were injured, Moses said.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Path tracing is an advanced form of ray tracing that's among the most demanding graphics-rendering techniques today, often requiring upscaling and frame generation to achieve a playable frame rate.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of rendering
Verb
  • Rather than replicating the formula of an international luxury chain, Elegance has built its reputation on intimate hotels that celebrate Vietnamese hospitality, thoughtful design, and sense of place.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
  • His work is crisp, playful, and nostalgic, replicating the exact fonts and presentations of centuries-old stylings for businesses and public parks alike.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of replicating

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“Cloning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloning. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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