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as in pictures
something or someone that strongly resembles another
doll carriages that are duplicates of baby carriages
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as in copies
something that is made to look exactly like something else
a duplicate of a house key
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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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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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as in doubles
to make twice as great or as many
the recipe can be easily duplicated in order to feed a large family
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Recent Examples of duplicates
Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Dedicate budget and time to remove duplicates, reconcile systems and build a consistent data model.
—David Kelley, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Sort all the items by category so they can be grouped together, get rid of unnecessary duplicates, and re-home items that can be stored elsewhere.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
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
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
Noun
Another way to spot AI videos is to keep an eye out for near-duplicates of the same clip.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Dedicate budget and time to remove duplicates, reconcile systems and build a consistent data model.
—David Kelley, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Sort all the items by category so they can be grouped together, get rid of unnecessary duplicates, and re-home items that can be stored elsewhere.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
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
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
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The video showed dozens of videos and pictures sent to her, all featuring people eating McDonald's fries as a show of solidarity.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Go through a corn maze, sip on apple cider, and take silly pictures with the cardboard cutouts.—
Kylie Petty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
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Bring multiple copies of your résumé, have questions for the reps and dress professionally.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
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Once the copies are made, keep them on hand and store the originals in a safe and secure place, Velasquez said.—
Alyssa N. Salcedo,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Hawley even reproduces the kidnapping scene from the film, but with Dorothy as the intended kidnapee.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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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
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The vessel has other eco details such as synthetic teak that replicates authentic teak in both looks and the ability to stay cool underfoot, a bio-resin in the layup, among others.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
22 Oct. 2025
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To strengthen local talent, Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington, is launching an Energy Learning Center with a simulator that replicates X-energy’s control room.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Singles for the hairline, doubles just behind, multis where volume helps.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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All these excellent, exacting details coexist well with each other to produce one of Lanthimos’s best films yet, a movie of startling ingenuity that also doubles as a humorous but pointed warning to us all.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Tonight, one of the replicas hits the Paramount Studios runway on model Olivia Petersen.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
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The exhibition highlights over 40 life-size animatronic replicas of dinosaurs in their habitats, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptors and Stegosauruses.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2025
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The collection included reproductions of uniforms worn by each profession and Johnson’s modernized interpretations, enhanced with waterproofing, durability and thermal regulation.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
20 Oct. 2025
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While genuine antiques from the Ming dynasty can fetch millions at auction, many later reproductions and export pieces from the 18th to 20th centuries still carry significant value.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Hawke renders Hart as the most erudite barfly to buzz around mid-century Manhattan.—
Kyle McGovern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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There are unanswered overtures from the choir’s pianist Horner (Robert Emms), a soft, vulnerable young man whose conscientious-objector status renders him a fellow outsider.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Duplicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicates. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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