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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloning
  1. copying
  2. reproducing
  3. rendering
  4. replicating
Verb
  • But copying human anatomy makes the hands heavier, and LinkerBot concedes that fingertip force is modest.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Boorady spent 10 hours in the real Oval Office this summer, taking photographs and scanning every one of those gold fixtures, documenting every detail, and then copying them.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of copying
Verb
  • That approach indicates that Cardsmiths isn’t exclusively reproducing the card but offering its own take.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • It was found able to self-replicate via cell division at a temperature of 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit) and was still fully active, albeit no longer reproducing, at 64 degrees C (147 degrees F).
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of reproducing
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  • Officers brought Bottom down and began rendering aid before medics arrived and rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • All four of those songs all also appear on proper albums, some in superior re-recordings, rendering the compilation a little redundant.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of rendering
Verb
  • The stations are standardised, so capacity is added by replicating them, and this line is the blueprint for future local for local expansion, as per the release.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of replicating

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

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