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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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Antonyms
STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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However, simply churning out animated masterpieces wouldn’t be enough to clone Disney’s flywheel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 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

There may still be time to rescue LA2028 from another anodyne, wholly wholesome Sam clone.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

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

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

None of them cared whether he was a human or a clone.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

“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

"These clones were then evaluated in vitro and in a mouse model to observe their ability to migrate through a real biological filter and generate metastases," adds Arwen Conod.

From Science Daily Mar. 21, 2026

“International law is my specialty. In the first place, clones shouldn’t exist.”

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

However, the cloned seedlings are cultivated and grown, again over years, to another selection point.

From BBC May 14, 2026

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

From Science Daily Mar. 21, 2026

Or competing software companies that already have brand recognition could easily launch cloned products, all but erasing the ability of firms to differentiate their products from their rivals’.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

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

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

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

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

In 1978, Habener set up his own lab at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, looking to capitalize on a new technology for cloning genes by studying pancreatic and other hormones.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 29, 2025

Others are already cloning their voices and handing over their podcasts to AI bots.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2025

“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




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