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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
  • The Ohio business has denied intentionally copying Buc-ee's branding.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
  • But installing a new system isn’t just copying and pasting a playbook; constant tweaks and adjustments are needed, especially when defenses start throwing curveballs.
    — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of copying
Verb
  • Without a constant flow of fresh human insight, synthetic models risk becoming increasingly sophisticated at reproducing what is already known.
    — Abigail Stuart, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • To avoid reproducing a rentier economy dependent on transit fees and foreign concessions, the Syrian state must reinvest project revenues in local economies.
    — Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of reproducing
Verb
  • And with the aforementioned outgoings, the Uruguay international is also probably Tottenham’s best player in the air now, rendering him near-undroppable.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • But the bigger issue is that Tenzing keeps its title character and his closest ally (to say nothing of all the smaller characters around them) at a reverent distance, rendering them in broad strokes rather than fine shading.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of rendering
Verb
  • My learning is more about understanding the mechanics of performance, the how, rather than replicating the why behind human emotions.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Cunha’s strength has been in replicating some of the things that helped Murillo build his reputation in England.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of replicating

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“Cloning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloning. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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