duplicating

present participle of duplicate
1
as in copying
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 replicating
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 duplicating The country plans to expand LNG capacity from 77 million tons per year to 142 million by 2030, and duplicating that infrastructure isn’t feasible. — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026 That does not mean flexibility everywhere; duplicating every workload across clouds usually costs more than the option is worth. — Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Rather, each pair should serve a distinct purpose instead of duplicating another one already hanging in the closet. — Alesandra Dubin, Glamour, 31 July 2026 Detroit still has Cade Cunningham, but duplicating last season will be tough. — David Aldridge, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Fiber-optic, first-person view (FPV) drones have become a key weapon in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah’s war against Israel in recent months – bypassing Israel’s sophisticated defense systems by duplicating an asymmetric warfare tactic that first emerged in the Russia-Ukraine war. — Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 28 June 2026 Creating parallel capabilities overseas risks duplicating existing infrastructure while diverting attention and resources from the interventions most likely to bring the outbreak under control. — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 5 June 2026 But Elliott’s openness to the idea of duplicating a move his father made 25 years ago was greeted with near-unanimous approval online. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2026 Then a bipartisan team will remake the ballot in a process known as duplicating. — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicating
Verb
  • But these genes still get copied every time the bacterium divides, and copying DNA costs energy.
    — Canan Karakoç, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
  • People swivel-chair between them, copying information from emails, clicking through numerous interfaces and other tools.
    — Bryan Goode, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • My learning is more about understanding the mechanics of performance, the how, rather than replicating the why behind human emotions.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Cunha’s strength has been in replicating some of the things that helped Murillo build his reputation in England.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
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  • European diesel futures recently touched historic highs, more than doubling from levels seen at the start of the year.
    — , CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Getty Images Most Popular Harrow is also a Hollywood favorite, used as a filming location in The Crown (standing in for Eton, its longtime rival) and doubling for Cambridge’s Trinity College in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything.
    — Ashley Baker, Vanity Fair, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile several experts, independent of Schrottenloher, had launched an initiative aimed at reproducing Google’s result.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Its job is to go beyond producing a serviceable picture by interpreting and reproducing content.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of splintering, the waves naturally organize themselves into repeating geometric loops.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • History was now repeating itself in the United States, Kristofcak thought.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
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  • Focus on the bad ones, and predictors keep multiplying, needing constant updates as fraud evolves.
    — Wayne Hamilton, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • With climate effects multiplying, many lofty net zero commitments have recently come back down to Earth with a bump.
    — Johannes Teyssen, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
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  • By updating the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive to blacklist specific misleading marketing tactics, however, EmpCo could lighten the load for watchdog groups by rendering once-routine declarations off-limits.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The movie is fantastic, a true thriller, and while some liberties were taken with the depiction of outer space, the basic premise of a cascading series of collisions rendering orbits too cluttered with debris to be usable is valid.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • More recently, in 2023, Belarusian embassies abroad stopped extending or renewing passports entirely, putting dissidents who fled the country in a similar bind to those from Myanmar.
    — Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The oversight body is not renewing itself fast enough to be positioned for the wave of transitions it will eventually be asked to govern.
    — Shawn Cole, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026

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“Duplicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicating. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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