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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

Among the study participants, the largest individual clone represented an average of 33.3% of all CD4 CTLs.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 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

By tracing the genetic origins of these clones and comparing patterns of gene activity, the researchers connected differences in DNA copy numbers with the types of cells present in each tumor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 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

And if you injure a jellyfish, you might find hundreds of little clones floating about, tiny replicas generated one after another from the damaged tissue, as if spit out from a 3-D printer.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

Both cloned and ghost plates look like normal vehicle registration plates when viewed by the naked eye.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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

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

“A reporter came here from England talking about they cloned a sheep. Now they got stuff about cloning my mother all over.”

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

But before the cloning of whole animals, there was the cloning of individual cells —Henrietta’s cells.

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


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