duplicate
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The mailer, in English and Spanish, instructs those who got two ballots to “securely destroy the duplicate ballot” instead of returning it.
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 ECI has rejected allegations of impropriety, saying the revision was intended to remove duplicate and ineligible voters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
While many were due to duplicate entries or deceased voters, some were also flagged by computer programs for having especially large families or improbable age gaps between parents and children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
For the next hour I stood in a rank with Sander and the others, facing Mr. Armin and attempting to duplicate his stance and movements.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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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
Speaking of cost, statisticians have suggested that trying to complete the set at retail alone - accounting for duplicates - will burn a £1,300 hole in your pocket.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
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
It could withhold files if they are duplicates; fall under attorney-client privilege; could hurt a continuing investigation; or are completely unrelated to the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
But on the number sphere, the two curves are duplicates of each other; they are mirror images.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Supporters say it won’t make any substantive changes, but instead make the rules easier to understand by deleting duplicated language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
She advises people to ask for itemized bills, look for errors and duplicated charges that can be corrected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Rather, he said by deleting duplicated language in the charter, the rules will be easier to understand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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
And lower down a large clouded spot that duplicated itself in the right lung farther up.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
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
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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