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duplicated

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verb

past tense of duplicate
1
as in copied
to make an exact likeness of art students trying to duplicate paintings in the museum's collection as part of their training

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as in replicated
to make or do again we were unable to duplicate the experiment in our own lab, so we're suspicious

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Recent Examples of duplicated
Adjective
This creates duplicated infrastructure, inconsistent models, and operational complexity. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026 The duplicated sets and near-complete location builds enable the filmmakers to make the most of Carol’s house as a setting. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
Verb
The Kelly green of the franchise’s past is duplicated in suede for the toe box, vamp and collar, as well as a TPU heel counter. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2026 Those who voted on Issue 7A but were not eligible to do so will have their ballots duplicated onto the correct ballot style, state officials said. — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2026 The company started scanning repositories for credentials, began alerting users that their credentials were exposed, and even set up default push protections to prevent affected repositories from being duplicated. — Alex Colon, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026 Information was duplicated across five or six locations, sometimes appearing in slightly different configurations. — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026 Reducing the number of physical test vehicles and duplicated validation efforts needed because data and context carry forward. — Yu Fang, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Indeed, because the 100th anniversary special won’t be duplicated, like an annual awards program, or last for weeks, like a soccer tournament, advertisers likely feel assured their backing of the extravaganza will get noticed. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026 Foster care leaders said the program duplicated existing services. — Justin Garcia, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026 That Robert Zemeckis film will never be duplicated or topped, but there’s a difference between these films worth teasing out. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicated
Adjective
  • Alves described how black-and-white prints with a photocopied feel, Japanese and Chinese-inspired graphics and animal prints transform basic jeans into pieces worthy of going viral online.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Apatow had with him a chaotic pile of notes—scrawled by hand, photocopied, clearly out of order, some upside down.
    — Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the website owners with any mechanism to block its crawler, according to The News’s complaint.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The work that was created hundreds of years ago just can't be replicated.
    — Erin Jones, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The six-star motif is then replicated once again in a remix of the outsole pattern, and a co-branded rubber money can be removed from the toe box.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The brand doubled its Galápagos fleet in 2025 by adding the 16-guest catamaran Delfina and the 48-guest Gemini.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Nvidia’s stock had more than doubled from its April 2025 lows by late October, before retreating in the following months.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • The transcribed interview is a test of how much scrutiny lawmakers will apply to powerful men who kept company with Epstein even after his conviction.
    — Stephen Groves, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • The Microsoft co‑founder is scheduled to sit for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on June 10, a source familiar with the proceedings confirmed to USA TODAY.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, the conjecture addresses a specific class of quantum computations and the conditions under which their apparent advantage can be reproduced classically.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Altonaga ruled that the dispute required a more developed factual record, particularly because the university’s earlier submissions selectively reproduced statements without providing their complete conversational context.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • This process is repeated as the car progresses down the track, going from one trigger to the next in line.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Nov. 2026
  • That pattern repeated after the Justice Department announced the preliminary results of the 2025 National Crime Victimization Survey last week.
    — Jacob Sullum, Oc Register, 12 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The number Real Motor quotes is the torque measured at the wheel, after being multiplied by the bike’s gearing.
    — Tim Stevens, The Verge, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The group’s apps have more than 40 million monthly active users combined and have passed 300 million installs, and EloElo said its revenue multiplied over the past year.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026

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“Duplicated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicated. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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