1
as in to reproduce
to make an exact likeness of reduplicate a recording of the concert for my friend

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2
as in to repeat
to make or do again found out halfway through the project that I was reduplicating another team member's efforts, so we had to figure out who was going to do what

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Verb
  • Although certain species live for over 30 years, bats reproduce slowly – typically one pup per year.
    Anna Tunkova, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • So with nothing to stop them, the birds flew to nearby marshlands and began reproducing.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And for another, the commercial spaceflight company founded by billionaire Elon Musk has struggled this year to repeat the successes of previous Starship test flights.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Defending race champion Sweet Azteca looks to repeat in Sunday’s Grade III Rancho Bernardo, a 6 ½-furlong sprint for older fillies and mares.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That would be the case if, say, Ethan were copying a design element of Jesus’s, too, but that’s not what happened here, Heidi.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But Bowman could copy the Vegas Golden Knights, who often spend the deadline picking up younger talent heading for free agency and then sign that talent before July 1.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • At the same time, machines became more like us, because their design was based on replicating our mechanized routines.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • To them, the future goes like this: AI replicates expert capabilities, overtakes the experts, and finally replaces them altogether.
    David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The gauzy, dark concerts from (famously) Nirvana, Sinéad O’Connor, and Alicia Keys render the operatic intimate, and highlight good tunes in a way stadium polish just can’t.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The no-confidence motion is rendered void, and Dalton is reinstated as PM.
    Jack King, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, has renewed his contract through the 2027-28 season.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2025
  • North Carolina man can't renew his short-term plan Charlotte, North Carolina, resident Steve Swicegood purchased a short-term plan sold by UnitedHealthcare over two years ago.
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Although Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis had a cutthroat rivalry in Black Swan, life did not imitate art for the actresses, despite Darren Aronofsky‘s best attempts.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The fake pool has been designed to imitate the uppermost twenty feet of the real one as closely as possible, down to the contours of its sides, which are made not from rock but from plastic foam sealed with fibreglass.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Mechanics need to be able to interpret what a customer is explaining about an issue and try to duplicate the situation where the problem occurs.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Other companies, including the major mobile operators, also began building fiber between Nigerian cities, duplicating each other’s infrastructure.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Reduplicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduplicate. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.

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