duplicate
Example Sentences
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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India's Election Commission says the revision is meant to weed out duplicate or outdated entries and add genuine voters.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
BP Chair Albert Manifold recommended shareholders vote against the resolution, saying it would duplicate existing reporting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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
“What about an exact electric duplicate of your cat? We can have a superb handcrafted job by Wheelright & Carpenter in which every detail of the old animal is faithfully repeated in permanent—”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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"A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry
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"A Walk to the Jetty," Vocabulary from a novel excerpt
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