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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

But it was an AI clone, making the American mother yet another victim of a growing wave of impersonation scams.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Why had Maria run from him when they found MacGregor’s clone in the hospital?

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

“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

Because the next batch of plants won't be siblings; they will instead be exact copies of the ones which survived the selection round - clones.

From BBC May 14, 2026

Matt wanted to ask Maria about clones, but he was afraid she might hate him too if he reminded her.

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

He was cloned from the bloodstains found on Lucy Todd Lincoln’s opera cloak.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

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

Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technology has demolished the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing cybercriminals strikingly convincing voice cloning tools to steal from people by mimicking loved ones.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Simple internet searches can surface a wide array of voice cloning apps, many available for free, that create realistic AI replicas using small samples -- sometimes only seconds -- of a person's real voice.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Dennhardt said restoring the island will also involve ripping out invasive plants, cloning rare plant species and seeding the landscape with natives.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 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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