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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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Antonyms
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

"Flappy Bill", a clone of the 2013 viral hit Flappy Bird sees players fly a bald eagle and dodging monuments from the National Mall.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

“So I poured one of... my bottles on the hamburger that idiot clone left behind. ‘Come here, Furball,’ I called.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

These reconstructions allowed them to trace the origins of cancer clones, groups of genetically identical cells that later contributed to disease progression.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 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

An old memory surfaced of the doctor telling Rosa that clones went to pieces when they got older.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

Still, cloned horses can reproduce normally, so bloodlines that would have been lost can be reintroduced and improved upon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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

To overcome this, the researchers isolated, cloned, and grew tumor cells in the lab.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

Today, when we hear the word clone, we imagine scientists creating entire living animals —like Dolly the famous cloned sheep—using DNA from one parent.

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

This had been accomplished with time travel and cloning technology.

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

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

Now cloning is becoming more popular in other disciplines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

To understand why cellular cloning was important, you need to know two things: First, HeLa didn’t grow from one of Henrietta’s cells.

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




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