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duplicate

[doo-pli-kit, dyoo-, doo-pli-kayt, dyoo-] / ˈdu plɪ kɪt, ˈdju-, ˈdu plɪˌkeɪt, ˈdju- /






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Baldwin said that as soon as residents started reporting their duplicate ballots, elections staffers immediately contacted the vendor, which confirmed the evening of Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

To study the consequences of these abnormalities, Cimini's team manipulated diploid cancer cells so they would duplicate their chromosomes without completing cell division.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The row centres over a mammoth exercise to update electoral rolls nationwide - the commission has said it's a routine exercise to weed out dead, duplicate or ineligible voters.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The ECI has rejected allegations of impropriety in the "special intensive revision", saying it was intended to remove duplicate and ineligible voters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

In every respect—he told Matt—he tried to duplicate that memory, only of course being vastly more wealthy, he could have dozens of statues, fountains, and gardens.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Annarita Librari’s stunningly intricate watermark duplicates Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady With an Ermine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

For the uninitiated, Quince is a high-end, direct-to-consumer brand which makes duplicates of pricey, popular apparel and accessories.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

According to an ECI breakdown seen by AFP, around 28 million entries were classified as belonging to deceased voters and 10.4 million as duplicates, while millions of others were marked as absent, shifted or untraceable.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

In total it has nearly 15 million 'lines' of data, but some of these are thought to be duplicates.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

The mousy brown librarian has sent copies of the Tavernier and the Streeter and even—most remarkably— stencil duplicates of de Boodt’s 1604 Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, written entirely in Latin.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Rather, he said by deleting duplicated language in the charter, the rules will be easier to understand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Rather than simply carrying extra copies of the same genes, the plants gradually transformed those duplicated genomes into something different.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Previously, charities often duplicated health programs and lured trained government workers into higher-paying jobs with aid agencies, making it difficult for her government to retain skilled staff, Atwine said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Nevertheless, some of the works involved are "especially popular and duplicated many times online", making it difficult to exclude them completely from training data.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

Then, using a lightly drawn grid, she duplicated those shapes exactly on a separate piece of paper.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Countries seeking to protect domestic companies are also duplicating efforts, such as building too many different types of armored vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

"They told me it was NatWest fraud - which is who I bank with - and they said we've arrested two men in Merseyside for duplicating your card," she said.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

Instead, it can draw on existing mental components, recombine them, and avoid duplicating work, a strategy that current AI systems generally lack.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025

Guthy had made a living duplicating audiocassettes for medical conferences and real estate professionals selling home study programs who would then turn around and sell them to customers for hundreds of dollars on infomercials.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025

Day and night, they printed thousands of new, even bolder, leaflets on a hand-cranked duplicating machine, possibly purchased with the money Sophie asked to borrow from Fritz.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


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