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duplicate

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






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These med-à-terres are a safety net for seniors who are finding that, while they can export wealth, they can’t easily duplicate relationships with top-tier oncologists or cardiologists.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

A stage adaptation can’t duplicate the way Lumet visually distilled the rough-and-tumble New York zeitgeist of the tumultuous early 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2026

India's Election Commission says the revision is meant to weed out duplicate or outdated entries and add genuine voters.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2026

"A big portion of popular country music has become kind of shallow, so that is pretty easy to duplicate."

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

Halliday appeared to have copied the code for Happytime Pizza from his Middletown simulation and hidden a duplicate of it here in the Archaide museum.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Other names are probably duplicates, the government says, while some people may have gone off the grid voluntarily for personal reasons.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2026

A search for his surname on the DOJ website returns over 2,000 results, though many of those are duplicates, and Elkholy said the files show he only met Epstein 10-12 times over a 10-year period.

From BBC Mar. 27, 2026

In the iCloud Photos section, tap Manage Storage, where you can merge duplicates and delete large files.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

This includes Medicare and Medi-Cal explanations of benefits, monthly statements, hospice and medical visit records, and all duplicates.

From MarketWatch Jan. 27, 2026

“A key is nothing,” I said; “there may be duplicates; and anyhow it is not difficult to pick a lock of that kind.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Across volatile regions, some critical infrastructure, like desalination plants and data centers, will need to be fortified with layers of reinforced concrete, duplicated to provide backups or potentially relocated underground—at significant cost.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

This included records of retracted papers, editorial information and examples of duplicated images.

From Science Daily Mar. 7, 2026

While the United States employs around 30 different weapon systems, Europe has an often duplicated 178.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

The move follows similar actions by rivals facing intense scrutiny over child safety and follows an Australian ban on under-16s using social media that is being duplicated in other countries.

From Barron's Feb. 9, 2026

If so, the best way to find out what a gene was and how it duplicated was to study the properties of viruses.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

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

And Safdie is so devoted to duplicating the earthy brown decor of Kerr’s late-’90s nouveau riche Phoenix home that you’d think he was restoring Notre Dame.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

Alex Mahon recently told a newspaper that there needs to be "more collaboration" between the UK broadcasters – a way of "making sure we're not duplicating the same technology".

From BBC May 13, 2025

And then he added thoughtfully, “We really ought to have a duplicating machine.”

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




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