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duplicated

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verb

past tense of duplicate
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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
My goal is to make this the best program out there, so it's duplicated over and over again. Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026 Some states, including Michigan, were backstopped by their own laws that duplicated at least part of the federal protection. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026 His track record of never having a losing season in 19 years will likely never be duplicated. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026 Andrew Peeke and Hampus Lindholm duplicated down-low coverage on Ohgren. Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025 That lack of clarity protects failure from exposure and inhibits successful programs from being duplicated. Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025 The Venetian concert experience was duplicated in 2001 to commemorate the city’s 75th birthday, with a similar concert held for its 90th, according to Pantin and the city’s website. Miami Herald, 24 Nov. 2025 Heise said The Board Room brought something special to the city that could not be duplicated. Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 23 Nov. 2025 This process is required to make sure services are not duplicated. Chase Jordan november 11, Charlotte Observer, 11 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicated
Verb
  • Rental schemes usually involve fake listings, which can look very real, often containing information and photos copied directly from legitimate listings on social media.
    Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Even so, once data has been copied out of a network, there is no way to pull it back.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • But that doesn’t mean the results at Chalmers and Chávez can’t be replicated at larger high schools.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Driskell said the kind of massive federal immigration enforcement effort that’s going on in Minnesota could result in the same kind of violence if it were replicated in Florida.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • In the three months leading up to the rally, the number of American troops in Vietnam had more than doubled—to fifty‑two thousand.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Let dough sit at room temperature until puffy and almost doubled in size, about 1½ hours.
    Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • What Rusbridger’s account leaves out is that the BBC has reproduced the prejudices of successive British establishments since its inception in the early twentieth century, whether by propagandizing against workers during the general strike of 1926 or by condemning the antiwar protests of 2003.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The same pattern essentially repeated itself in the first decade of the 21st century.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • So much of these online spaces, social media in particular, are created for community; inside of them, the primary medium is storytelling, and often the same stories are repeated or mimicked, recreating the oral storytelling tradition of our ancestors.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The stock multiplied by about eightfold from the beginning of 1997 through its peak in September 2000, before losing over 90% of its value over a roughly two-year market collapse.
    Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Digital products and platforms multiplied.
    Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Until this year, a box of Festinger’s documents—communications with colleagues, research notes, transcribed telephone conversations—in his archives at the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, remained sealed at the request of his widow, Trudy.
    Shayla Love, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jordan lays out how Windom refused to answer multiple questions during a transcribed interview in June and a required deposition in September.
    David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2025

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