DUPLICATING Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

duplicating

verb

present participle of duplicate

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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as in doubling

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 duplicating The tense battle culminates in the Beliskner being destroyed, in turn killing all the Replicators, except for one, which is seen crawling out of the ocean, setting up future battles with this duplicating menace. —

Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026 The findings, published in a new study in the journal Nature Communications, suggest there’s a hard limit to duplicating mammals. —

Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026 From there, a user named Vega turned it into a TikTok dance video that exploded — people duplicating themselves on screen, one version performing, the other dancing behind them. —

Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026 And Payton conceded that Denver can’t count on duplicating the 12-2 record in one-score games the Broncos achieved last season. —

Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026 But current and former leaders of foster care agencies told the Tampa Bay Times last year that the claims were exaggerated or false, and that the Hope Florida program was duplicating existing efforts in child welfare. —

Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026 McGee offers the example of duplicating triangle points by adding a prep faucet near the refrigerator. —

Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026 Bidirectional edges connected the robots to each other, because each robot had to know what other robots were doing at each time step to avoid collisions or duplicating tasks. —

Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025 The remaining one-third involves SG&A costs, split between restructuring sales and marketing operations and duplicating corporate functions such as finance, HR, and legal. —

Joe Cornell, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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Join me in copying Pidgeon’s spring-ready lip look while the Rom&nd Juicy Lasting Tint is only $14.

— Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
By copying the strut and behavior of real males, the robotic birds are meant to attract younger grouse and encourage them to start a new breeding site in a safer location.

— Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026