cloning

present participle of clone

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of cloning 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
Verb
  • Third-party imitation involves observing interactions between two individuals then faithfully copying those interactions.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The trailer shows the player character to be a simple Ditto, the amorphous blob Pokémon capable of copying others’ appearance, taking on the eerie form of a human girl before making its way into the world.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By reproducing the tachocline, scientists now have a foundation for more reliable forecasts of solar activity.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Preliminary data seemed to show that the Iberian harvester ants, or Messor ibericus, were creating hybrid worker ants by reproducing with another species of harvester ant called Messor structor in the Mediterranean region.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This is less computationally intensive than actually rendering all three of those frames; it can be combined with MetalFX's existing temporal upscaling, boosting performance even further.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But the speed came from all three levels of Green Bay’s defense, rendering Washington’s offense almost inoperative.
    Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Listings on marketplaces Etsy and needshirt showed shirts replicating the one depicted in images the FBI circulated in their search for the suspect.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The immediate next steps for the research include replicating the results in thin films to compare them with bulk crystals.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Cloning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloning. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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