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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
Verb
The Dolphins won six of eight after that rough start last season, and the team hopes that turnaround can be duplicated. Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025 The cameo feature, which allows your child’s likeness to be potentially duplicated in video form, and misused. ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 Oct. 2025 People who have baseball as their favorite sport often have it because of the parts of the game that cannot be duplicated in any other sport. Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025 Innovation—from new fibers to sustainable dyes—will continue to come from China and be duplicated in Cambodia. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2025 The current administration’s justification for eliminating the CSB is that its capabilities are duplicated by agencies such as the EPA and OSHA. Philip Steenstra, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025 Often imitated but never duplicated, the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer continues to be a bestseller online, beloved by both salon owners and everyday users alike. Brittany Loggins, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025 If your data is duplicated, incomplete or inconsistent, AI will accelerate the chaos. Kevin Campbell, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 Other arrests were duplicated entirely, and researchers have cautioned that ICE’s data at times has had inaccurate or missing information. Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicated
Verb
  • But tension from within the sheriff’s office boiled over and reached the public in November 2024, when then-Chief Deputy Kevin Canty resigned, sent McFadden a harsh resignation letter and copied the entire sheriff’s office to the email.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • State after state copied California’s Alien Land Law.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Grossman found that stories that were critical of Hamas did not appear on BBC Arabic, but every story that attacked Israel was replicated by BBC Arabic, per the Telegraph.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Those are all specific processes that are often proprietary and unique to individual companies, and actually require a degree of human decision-making that isn’t easily replicated from scrapable data.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Mortgage rates, which more than doubled in 2022 from their pandemic lows, remain above 6 percent.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Cinelli said Scale’s data business has grown every month since the Meta deal, and its applications business has doubled in the second half of 2025 compared with the first half.
    Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
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
  • In an exchange reproduced on screen, a fan asked Stause about her rift with Hernan.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • It’s been shared 23,000 times on Facebook, NBC found, although it is actually composed of just a few faces repeated over and over again.
    David Smiley, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Spencer said the same mistake cannot be repeated in Gaza.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • While a single meal may seem inconsequential, if multiplied across millions of households these choices translate into meaningful water savings.
    Huma Tariq Malik, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Her ticket matched four white balls in the drawing, winning her a $50,000 prize that was multiplied to $100,000 because of the Power Play option.
    Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Each transcribed interview has been closed-door and conducted over several hours by the majority and minority committee staff.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2025

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