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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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
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicating
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Promoter sequences are short stretches of DNA that tell the cell’s copying machinery where a new protein starts.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Bobbitt said the issue may have been with incorrectly copying and pasting numbers.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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Some experts believe the total number of assets tied up in passive funds could be 2x higher because many active fund managers have started replicating passive fund strategies.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
7 Nov. 2025
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Fans got a glimpse of Jaafar in the role during the November 2025 teaser trailer, which showed the first footage of the young star replicating his uncle's iconic choreography.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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That doesn't mean the price tag of these ACA plans are doubling, but without the add-on subsidies, consumers will pay an average of $1,016 more in 2026.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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Open enrollment for coverage in 2026 began this month, with premiums more than doubling on average, according to KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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Also like the natural world, the Tyranids are patient, slowly devouring the edges of the galaxy and reproducing in unthinkable numbers in the darkness of space.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Women’s free labor in the home subsidized the profits of employers because workers’ families bore the cost of reproducing the future labor force.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Now, two decades later, the cycle appears to be repeating.—
Israel Melendez Ayala,
Time,
10 Nov. 2025
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This included repeating racist comments in 2019, insinuating a claim that Blacks are less intelligent than Whites due to genetics.—
Christina Zdanowicz,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Pasadena Humane staff emphasized the urgency of the rescue, noting that unseparated mice and hamsters can reproduce rapidly, quickly multiplying into dozens of animals in a short time.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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Bellettini was previously Kering’s deputy CEO in charge of brand development and is best known for her long tenure leading Saint Laurent, multiplying the size of that business nearly sixfold.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
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Tagliabue had insisted he be directly involved in all labor negotiations, basically rendering useless the Management Council of club executives that had handled such duties for nearly two decades.—
NPR,
NPR,
9 Nov. 2025
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George Miller spent 40 years building the Mad Max universe, but holds little fear for technology that can recreate a version of his dystopian dust bowl within seconds of rendering a text prompt.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Lutnick has said the Administration is even considering taking ownership stakes in big defense contractors, such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, presumably as the price of renewing their lucrative federal contracts.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Not renewing subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act would disproportionately affect Republican states, particularly in the South, according to analysts.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Duplicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicating. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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