duplicates 1 of 2

plural of duplicate

duplicates

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of duplicate
1
as in reproduces
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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2
as in replicates
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 duplicates
Noun
Analysts like him would pore over positive duplicates of negatives, examining them under a micro-stereoscope to see sites in three dimensions. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025 Clean up messy data, remove duplicates and make sure everything follows a consistent format. Samuel Darwin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Our review of these records suggests these types of duplicates are uncommon. Pratheek Rebala, ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025 According to archivist Lewis, these documents include records related to the computer and printer businesses, along with duplicates of journals and magazines, and copies of oral histories and photographs. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicates
Noun
  • Lord entered the truck in competitions in Louisiana and Texas and loved to park it in front of the Henderson building to take pictures of it, Michelle said.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Some of my friends were pressured to send inappropriate pictures, contacted by strangers, and exposed to content way beyond our age.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Luminate reports that the decade-old set sold 50,500 copies throughout America in the most recent week.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One accuser, Marina Lacerda, called on the Justice Department to give survivors full unredacted copies of all case files.
    Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And in June, Erdős and Volodymyr Riabov posted a paper that reproduces Yau and Yin’s one-dimensional result for a broader class of band matrices.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Dynamic magnetism model offers insights beyond plutonium By incorporating temperature-dependent magnetic states, the model accurately reproduces the unusual experimental observation that delta-plutonium contracts at high temperatures.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The poster starts by making some chirping noises, which the cat replicates.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The fractured narrative replicates the characters’ fractured perspectives.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bichette is leading all of baseball in hits and doubles this season.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Emergence, a steel sculpture that doubles as a time capsule for the city, was re-installed at the Green Street Grove after a brief vacation from the public eye.
    Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the non-virtual world, some have made physical toy replicas of the characters, while others have created real-life plays featuring them.
    Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • While the original pieces perished in a fire at Rohwer after the war, the replicas remain to give evidence of this student project that developed under her supervision.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The current system of revisions renders an important set of numbers impossible to use.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To put it mildly, Longo is disheartened by the political climate, by the bullying and attacks on democracy, by war, by the language that renders America as a sports team.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Elinor soon repeats the information to Colonel Brandon.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • After that first action, the process repeats, always recalibrating based on the latest available data.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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