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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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Antonyms
STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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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

In our Valley Stream, Long Island home, my youthful 80-year-old, African American mother and I — her Gen X son and facial clone — comment on each episode like armchair judges.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

She worries it would set an impossibly high performance standard for the clone.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

Many family-emergency scams do not even require a perfect voice clone.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Matt wished he could hide in her apartment forever and forget about the Alacrans, the scornful servants, and MacGregor’s clone.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

The team showed that people carrying certain clones of immune cells produced by mutated blood stem cells were much less likely to develop Alzheimer's.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

The Fédération Equestre Internationale reversed its 2007 ban on clones in 2012, finding no unfair competitive advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

“While we do not see Meta abandoning its pursuit of AGI/ ChatGPT clones, we think this could be the first catalyst to more rational spending,” he added.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Within months, it entered the mainstream lexicon as a way to describe any AI-generated synthetic media that realistically clones a person’s image or voice.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

It was clear, whatever had happened to the other poor clones, that Matt wasn’t meant to be one of them.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Buenos Aires-based Kheiron Biotech, an equine cloning company, produced around 400 cloned horses during the season that ended in February, mostly of various polo ponies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

That could produce difficulties for the cloned animals and for modern life, including the possible revival of prehistoric pathogens for which humankind has no defense.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

The plate is a confirmed cloned tag used by a DHS surveillance task force.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

Recently, researchers cloned and expressed another rattlesnake serine protease known as cholinein-1.

From Science Daily Nov. 18, 2025

I search frantically for my cloned versions now.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Sceptics initially saw the cloning as "taboo" disruptions of nature, Shoichi Ikeno, head of local diving company Lagoon, told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Despite riding and competing on a clone, Krajewski said she wouldn’t consider cloning her Olympic gold-medal-winning mare, Amande de B’Neville.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

Equine cloning is gaining popularity in horse sports, with clones and their offspring emerging in top competitions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

The FBI said in April that Americans lost over $893 million last year to AI-enabled hoaxes, including voice cloning scams.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

“But if they cloning her cells, does that mean someday they could clone my mother?”

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




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