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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
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.
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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
The goal is to leverage their distinctive strengths to foster growth without duplicating efforts, according to Zhang Kailin, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Allen Northrup, a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, suggested to him that MEMS devices could dramatically speed up the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a relatively new means of duplicating sequences of DNA.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2019
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
The goal is to leverage their distinctive strengths to foster growth without duplicating efforts, according to Zhang Kailin, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Allen Northrup, a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, suggested to him that MEMS devices could dramatically speed up the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a relatively new means of duplicating sequences of DNA.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicating
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However, simply copying a movement is not enough.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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The city of Peabody was hacked last summer with the mayor's office saying someone got into their systems and began copying certain files.—
Mike Sullivan,
CBS News,
13 Feb. 2026
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To create the new estimate, scientists conducted experiments replicating core temperatures and pressures, using iron as a stand-in for the liquid metal core.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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For one thing, having an arsenal of outfits that people cannot stop thinking about (and replicating) decades later.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2026
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The process delivered a record 25,000 apartments in 2024 — a 50% year-over-year increase and doubling 2022’s total.—
Margi Glavovic Nothard,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
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As a result of that presentation, Disney committed to nearly doubling its investment in its parks and cruise ships, bringing the total to $60 billion over the next decade.—
Russ Bredholt Jr,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Feb. 2026
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The development of European cartography was driven by the Age of Exploration from the 15th to 17th centuries and entrepreneurial activities associated with reproducing and selling maps.—
Melinda Laituri,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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If some species can continue reproducing even under challenging conditions, that resilience could buy ecosystems valuable time.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Liu skated on, mastering her jumps and repeating as national champion in 2020, though age restrictions prevented her from entering international competitions.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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The Chinese zodiac, or Sheng Xiao (生肖), is a repeating 12-year cycle of animal signs and their attributes, based on the lunar calendar.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
15 Feb. 2026
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The result was a tiara of great height and presence, with floral motifs and mobile elements that allow the stones to vibrate slightly with movement, multiplying their brilliance.—
Marta Martínez Tato,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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Each measles patient can infect a dozen or more unvaccinated people, and cases in your community are multiplying rapidly.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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After rendering a contemporary Native American community in specific, surreal, often hilarious detail in Reservation Dogs, Sterlin Harjo turned to noir with The Lowdown.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
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This method also had the practical downside of rendering my colander unusable for straining the rigatoni for my Wednesday-night pasta alla vodka.—
Alma Avalle,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 Feb. 2026
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The facility drew widespread national attention last month after a photograph of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a blue bunny hat as he was led away by officers, spread online, renewing concerns about conditions inside Dilley.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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Their eventual choice will rent out the entire building — a building that also stopped renewing leases at an apartment property next door to create even more space.—
Sam McDowell
Updated February 13,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Duplicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicating. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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