cloning

present participle of clone

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of cloning 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloning
Verb
  • Don't start sending aggressive emails or copying numerous people on every message.
    William Phillips, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of copying each motion, the AI learned the underlying coordination principles.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • For as long as a queen is reproducing at a steady clip, all the other females in her colony will be totally infertile.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But the force of the flooding could mean mud may be caked over such exits, rendering rescue plans difficult, Horney said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The software offered to fix it, rendering a version with the left side lifted and overlaying the before and after so the subject could watch his own jawline move.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The show also pokes fun at the late 1990s and early 2000s liberal cultural consensus that was upheld in other popular culture of the time while also both replicating and subverting stereotypes of suburban Southern white Americans.
    Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Aug. 2026
  • As for Greathouse replicating his CFP performances of two years ago … that feels like a reach, even for this hypothetical exercise.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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“Cloning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloning. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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