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
Viagen is known for cloning Barbra Streisand’s dog Samantha, who died in 2017, and Paris Hilton’s dog Diamond Baby into two puppies after the pet went missing in 2022.
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Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Melissa and Joe have been wildly successful cloning new versions of themselves, like Barbra Streisand did with her dogs.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Since these ticks are parthenogenetic, meaning an individual female can lay eggs without mating, essentially cloning herself, male ticks are rare.
—Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
But the idea of cloning my father’s voice is repulsive to me.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Officials said Rodriguez-Leon was seen on surveillance footage in multiple stores taking gift cards, cloning the numbers and returning cards on the shelves.
—Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2024
Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Melissa and Joe have been wildly successful cloning new versions of themselves, like Barbra Streisand did with her dogs.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Since these ticks are parthenogenetic, meaning an individual female can lay eggs without mating, essentially cloning herself, male ticks are rare.
—Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
But the idea of cloning my father’s voice is repulsive to me.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Officials said Rodriguez-Leon was seen on surveillance footage in multiple stores taking gift cards, cloning the numbers and returning cards on the shelves.
—Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloning
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Promoter sequences are short stretches of DNA that tell the cell’s copying machinery where a new protein starts.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Bobbitt said the issue may have been with incorrectly copying and pasting numbers.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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Also like the natural world, the Tyranids are patient, slowly devouring the edges of the galaxy and reproducing in unthinkable numbers in the darkness of space.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Women’s free labor in the home subsidized the profits of employers because workers’ families bore the cost of reproducing the future labor force.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Tagliabue had insisted he be directly involved in all labor negotiations, basically rendering useless the Management Council of club executives that had handled such duties for nearly two decades.—
NPR,
NPR,
9 Nov. 2025
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George Miller spent 40 years building the Mad Max universe, but holds little fear for technology that can recreate a version of his dystopian dust bowl within seconds of rendering a text prompt.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Some experts believe the total number of assets tied up in passive funds could be 2x higher because many active fund managers have started replicating passive fund strategies.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
7 Nov. 2025
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Fans got a glimpse of Jaafar in the role during the November 2025 teaser trailer, which showed the first footage of the young star replicating his uncle's iconic choreography.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Cloning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloning. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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