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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
Synonyms
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

Some worry about losing the ability to breed ever-better horses and happy accidents that push the sport forward, if too many people decide to opt for a clone.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

She was like, So he’s the genetic clone of Abraham Lincoln.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

The sport now cultivates clones of Mr. Ryan throwing as hard as possible with maximum spin on the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 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

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

It would be, of course, impossible, if possibly amusing, to tell a “Stranger Things” tale set in this time with the original actors, and horrifying, if not immoral, to tell it with AI clones.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

They were not very big, but they were so similar in shape and size that they looked like clones.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

The plate is a confirmed cloned tag used by a DHS surveillance task force.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

Recently, researchers cloned and expressed another rattlesnake serine protease known as cholinein-1.

From Science Daily Nov. 18, 2025

I search frantically for my cloned versions now.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Castro was obsessed with cloning Ubre Blanca, a champion milk cow, to end the chronic milk shortage his agricultural policies created.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 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 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

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

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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