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
That means that winemakers across what is now France must have switched from domesticating wild grapes to propagating them directly—that is, cloning grapevines by taking cuttings of the plants to start new groves.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2026
The pursuit of truth through artifice would seem to defeat the object, and early experiments, like cloning Anthony Bourdain’s voice, were met with serious skepticism.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
Preserving tissue while the pet is alive improves cloning success rates.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
Preserving tissue improves cloning success rates.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
Preserving tissue improves cloning success rates — a lesson Anderson learned the hard way after degraded samples contributed to her four-year wait.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
Ramp showcased The Office character Kevin Malone (Brian Baumgartner) cloning himself to get all of his paperwork done.
—Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
Dennhardt said restoring the island will also involve ripping out invasive plants, cloning rare plant species and seeding the landscape with natives.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Liza Minnelli is standing by her decision to use an AI voice-cloning company on her first new song in 13 years.
—Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2026
The pursuit of truth through artifice would seem to defeat the object, and early experiments, like cloning Anthony Bourdain’s voice, were met with serious skepticism.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
Preserving tissue while the pet is alive improves cloning success rates.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
Preserving tissue improves cloning success rates.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
Preserving tissue improves cloning success rates — a lesson Anderson learned the hard way after degraded samples contributed to her four-year wait.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
Ramp showcased The Office character Kevin Malone (Brian Baumgartner) cloning himself to get all of his paperwork done.
—Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
Dennhardt said restoring the island will also involve ripping out invasive plants, cloning rare plant species and seeding the landscape with natives.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Liza Minnelli is standing by her decision to use an AI voice-cloning company on her first new song in 13 years.
—Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloning
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These moments show students evaluating AI output critically and treating it almost as a sparring partner, rather than simply copying it.—
Jeanne Beatrix Law,
The Conversation,
26 Mar. 2026
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The lawsuits accused Suno and Udio of unlawfully copying the three companies’ sound recordings as training models for their AI models.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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Despite religious and phenotypic differences, people around the western Mediterranean Sea have been interacting, trading, warring, migrating, and reproducing together for centuries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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This demo showed off a graphics-rendering task (an aquarium full of fish, whose frame rates and swimming action were directly affected by the availability of system resources).—
John Burek,
PC Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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The game was about rendering a person with a limited palette of supplies.—
Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026
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But Pop Mart's chances of replicating that success with newer characters such as Skullpanda and Twinkle Twinkle have come under investor scrutiny with the momentum that drove a massive rally in the stock over the past two years beginning to fade.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2026
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His young nephew provided the entertainment, whacking a plastic ball around with a toy club on the lawn, replicating pro golf mannerisms a little too closely.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Cloning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloning. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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