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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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Antonyms
STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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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

With just 10 seconds of audio, an AI tool can clone a voice.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 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

Matt knew he was El Patron’s clone, but he was unclear about the meaning of the word.

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

"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

The AI agents are essentially digital clones of real individuals, who are interviewed to gather their preferences, personality and other traits.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

For example, a viral AI-generated song using voice clones of Drake and The Weeknd was removed from the streaming service in 2023.

From BBC Oct. 16, 2025

“You poor fool. El Patron had seven other clones exactly like you, each one educated and believing he was going to run the country.”

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

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

On YouTube, his clone narrates “100 CEOs With Steven Bartlett,” which adds AI-generated animation to Bartlett’s cloned voice to tell the life stories of entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Richard Branson.

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

Still, the debate about whether it is the right way forward for horse sports is getting louder, as cloning progresses to gene editing.

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

The release of legitimate investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein has also fed unfounded theories about baby farms, murder and cloning.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 25, 2026

The artistic challenge, of course, is transformation, not cloning.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2026

After hearing a researcher talk about cloning, Deborah asked Sharrer whether it was possible to take DNA from HeLa cells and put it into one of Deborah’s eggs to bring her mother back to life.

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




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