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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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A high-profile Japanese anime voice actor has taken TikTok to court over videos he says feature an artificial intelligence clone of his "lustrous" baritone, with a verdict due on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

She soon hired a house manager who would do anything that she herself would do if she had a clone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Ultimately, trying to clone Obama is likely to be a fool’s errand.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

He called Seydou a clone of Travis Kelce, whom he coached at Cincinnati and helped convert into one of the best tight ends in NFL history.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

“The whole clone army thing could have been cool,” Door said.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

"The smaller clones are more aggressive," Bloomfield said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

While 30 seconds of audio can be enough to recreate a voice, the company recommends between 30 minutes and an hour of recording for the best-quality clones.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Voice clones are created by training AI on recordings of real people.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Much of the audience looks like clones of the star rapper, dressed in extremely oversized white tees, baggy denim, thick gold chains, tilted snapbacks and white-framed sunglasses with words written across the lenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

They were not very big, but they were so similar in shape and size that they looked like clones.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Without catching criminal bosses, experts agree, others lower down will continue carrying out thefts to order - often using tech such as cloned keys to access vehicles.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

But what’s happened since is so shocking that you’d be forgiven for wondering if Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski had been cloned in a lab at MIT.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

But his highest level of fame came from playing a thoughtful paleontologist summoned to an island off Costa Rica full of cloned dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” in 1993.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

"I genuinely thought someone had cloned my details - one transaction was by someone who bought a car. I thought they'd spent £8,000 of my money."

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

Deborah yelled on the other end, “I told you London cloned my mother!”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

AI-generated images like this, as well as voice cloning and deepfake videos are increasingly being used to trick people out of their money, according to National Trading Standards.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Our industry can be crushed" if a court win for TikTok triggers "unbridled" AI voice cloning on social media, actor Bin Shimada told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Obviously, Cramer’s claims, which hang on cloning and time travel, are out there.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

As high-quality synthetic re-creations become cheap and accessible, cloning has become a more desirable option for studios struggling with runaway production costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

After hearing a researcher talk about cloning, Deborah asked Sharrer whether it was possible to take DNA from HeLa cells and put it into one of Deborah’s eggs to bring her mother back to life.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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