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duplicate

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






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"A single national testing body offers common security standards, technology, candidate services and result procedures. Creating many new agencies could duplicate costs and produce uneven safeguards," he told PTI news agency.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

The bill may also contain coding errors, duplicate charges or costs that should have been covered.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

I’d like to congratulate Mel Brooks on making it to the age of 100, but I’m not sure I want to duplicate his achievement.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

"It's focused too much on whether silicon can duplicate a human brain and not enough on the broader question of what kinds of systems can be conscious," he said.

From Science Daily Jun. 24, 2026

A little bit of jelly with a duplicate beside it.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The posts have no direct connection to Rare Beauty, according to a spokeswoman, who said the brand doesn’t work with AI-generated creators or duplicates.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 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

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

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

From MarketWatch Jan. 27, 2026

Instantly there were some heavy tablets in it, signed by Aristotle, a parchment signed by Hecate, and some type-written duplicates signed by the Master of Trinity, who could not remember having met him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The two studio lots also boast dozens of soundstages; century-old fortresses that would not be easily duplicated.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Beyond these broad patterns lies enormous individual variation: blood vessels may follow different routes, muscles may be absent or duplicated, and even the folding patterns of the brain differ from person to person.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

Its first director, John Negroponte, quickly hired hundreds of people who duplicated the job of the analytical side of the CIA.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 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

So working out DNA’s chemical structure might be the essential step in learning how genes duplicated.

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

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

From BBC Mar. 16, 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

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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