CLONING Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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Scammers are getting better at copying familiar stores and creating convincing messages.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
That's technology enabling us to create something that captures the emotional connection of an earlier era without simply copying it.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of copying

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Since 2022, the parasites have been reproducing and moving farther northward.

— Eric Michel, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026
On orchestral tracks like the opening scene to John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the earbuds did a decent job of reproducing the overall sound.

— Christian de Looper, PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of reproducing

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But there is fear among players and coaches that appeals by the NCAA could ultimately go against them, rendering them ineligible again.

— Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Some of the fleet’s older satellites suffered from atomic clock failures, rendering them partially or totally unusable.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of rendering

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Experiments replicating hypersonic stress records phase changes in real time.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
As crises in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea become more linked amid an expanding regional war, replicating the patchwork maritime strategy that never fully worked would be a serious mistake.

— Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2026

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