replicas

plural of replica

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Recent Examples of replicas Most of the historic buildings and structures on Naper Settlement’s 13-acre campus are replicas of old buildings or were moved from their original locations and brought to the museum. — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026 In the public cloud, one patient or customer record can spread into replicas, logs, embeddings, feature stores, caches and model checkpoints. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 During the Qingming Festival, observed each year in April, families visit ancestral graves with food offerings and burn incense and paper replicas of everyday goods for their ancestors. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 What were once trusted outlets that regularly helped shape the national conversation now just sort of exist, zombie replicas of once-great institutions. — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026 Now in his late 70s, original inventions are key to Hadjikyriacou's success, alongside precision replicas. — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 The move could certainly backfire at a moment when the documentary (and nondocumentary) film world is wary of digital replicas replacing the real thing and AI deepfakes blurring the truth-fiction line. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 Today, replicas of various degrees of accuracy are readily available. — David Szondy august 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026 This involves virtual replicas of spinning frames, looms or dyeing machinery that are fed by IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) sensors. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replicas
Noun
  • But the sight of a man sleeping atop the shelter next to a shopping cart caught the attention of onlookers, some of whom pulled out their phones to take pictures, as first reported by KTLA.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, overflowed, destroying pictures of the late 13-year-old boy whom Campbell helped raise — and just about everything else in her home.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But De Kooning would apply fragments of the reproductions to new compositions, often in different orientations.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
  • This allowed the team to digitally analyze the scene, as well as create physical reproductions.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Gorgoni shot his images in the snow, endowing Shift with a stark graphic identity devoid of human occupancy.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In March, the company debuted Luma Agents, which can execute creative work across text, images, video, and audio on behalf of studios, marketing teams, and agencies.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • These genomes should reflect the full sequence of both chromosome copies and the diversity of the global population, rather than relying on one person or one ancestral group as a universal standard.
    — Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
  • When the Spider swings past a silverish-gray newsstand filled with copies of the Daily Bugle, the frame becomes black-and-white, even in the color version.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • One of the clones, Antonia, has done what her counterpart has failed to do — produce a surviving lineage of ferrets.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Scheungraber says DoppelCart shops mimic 44,182 different brands, with a median of two clones for each brand.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That her means of exit is abandoning her newborn twins is less than sympathetic, but in a different era Cathy would have options beyond a domesticity that never suited her in the first place.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The Trask twins have grown up with the lie that their mother died, and while Cal hides his wounds from that absence, Aron doesn’t.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Several hang in the Musée d’Orsay, including one of his portraits of the physician who treated him, Doctor Paul Gachet.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Other novelists have turned to acidic, class-conscious portraits of the underemployed—see Andrew Martin and Halle Butler.
    — Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Finally, under Performance, the photo cleaner offered to free up storage space by deleting duplicate photos and photos that, while not exact duplicates, are very similar.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The list of candidates for the top prize duplicates last year’s roster of EOTY nominees, with the exception of Langley taking the spot that went to Morgan Wallen in 2024.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Replicas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replicas. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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