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duplicate

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






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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

Scan it for mistakes and duplicate charges and ask the hospital to remove incorrect charges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

In such cases, they do not simply produce copies in the accepted sense of the word, since they do not try to achieve the effect of a duplicate.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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

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

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

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 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

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

Its elements have been duplicated, sampled and reimagined so many times that it now exists in countless forms, offering endless ways in.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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

Every detail from the film had been duplicated exactly.

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

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

Having two organisations often duplicating work, they say, led to wasted time and needless costs.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 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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