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 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 There were even recent reports that Ferguson was considering joining a reality show centered on cloning the late queen’s corgis. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 5 Apr. 2026 Many organisms like certain plants and bacteria reproduce by essentially cloning themselves. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026 Researchers found that malicious repositories could steal Anthropic API keys by cloning them. — Santhosh Jayaprakash, Forbes.com, 12 June 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 Collaboration is also more flexible with Live Share, letting teammates jump into sessions without cloning repos or setting up full environments. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 17 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloning
  1. copying
  2. reproducing
  3. rendering
  4. replicating
Verb
  • By copying texts, the monk incorporated the words, absorbing them in a process akin to that described by the Greek rhetorician Quintilian, who emphasized internalizing classical texts as a foundation for oratory and writing.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • The system for copying parts of the genome into RNA for protein production comes from a virus called T7.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
Definition of copying
Verb
  • According to the letter writer, the sea lions living and reproducing pups in the safety of La Jolla Cove should just go somewhere else along the very long California coastline.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2026
  • Facing long odds, Sydney commits to leading without reproducing the toxicity she’s witnessed from Carmy.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 June 2026
Definition of reproducing
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  • Australia’s online platforms are stumbling at the very first step in implementing age checks for users, rendering a world-first teen social media ban ineffective, a study by a team that advised the government’s rollout of the curbs found.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 7 July 2026
  • These extreme weather changes can cause pavement to expand, crack and warp, rendering some roads unusable until they are repaired.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 July 2026
Definition of rendering
Verb
  • The kestrel's stability doesn't come from any single trick but from all these mechanisms working together simultaneously – and replicating that in a lightweight, low-cost platform is the real challenge.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 July 2026
  • After some more tweaking and optimizing, the cell started growing and replicating its DNA.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2026
Definition of replicating

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“Cloning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloning. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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