cloning

present participle of clone

Example Sentences

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloning
Verb
  • The Ohio business has denied intentionally copying Buc-ee's branding.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
  • But installing a new system isn’t just copying and pasting a playbook; constant tweaks and adjustments are needed, especially when defenses start throwing curveballs.
    Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Its job is to go beyond producing a serviceable picture by interpreting and reproducing content.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Her ambition for the live show goes beyond simply reproducing the recordings.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Neither will the hapless farmer’s mane, soon rendering him a yeti-like village pariah.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But the plot loops and falls in on itself, rendering the dreamlike first half open to interpretation, and leaving viewers to sort through its many possible explanations.
    David Faris, TheWeek, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • My learning is more about understanding the mechanics of performance, the how, rather than replicating the why behind human emotions.
    Corbin Bolies, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Cunha’s strength has been in replicating some of the things that helped Murillo build his reputation in England.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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“Cloning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloning. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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