clone
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In our Valley Stream, Long Island home, my youthful 80-year-old, African American mother and I — her Gen X son and facial clone — comment on each episode like armchair judges.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
One user posted a video of a clunky but functional clone of the videogame “Grand Theft Auto,” showing it being coded autonomously by Fable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Many family-emergency scams do not even require a perfect voice clone.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Now, he’s returned with “Sheep in the Box,” a slick and dull story about two grieving parents who adopt a clone of their dead son.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
“I’ll dispose of the clone, sir,” said Tam Lin.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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The team showed that people carrying certain clones of immune cells produced by mutated blood stem cells were much less likely to develop Alzheimer's.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Fédération Equestre Internationale, the governing body for Olympic horse sports, banned clones from competition in 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
“While we do not see Meta abandoning its pursuit of AGI/ ChatGPT clones, we think this could be the first catalyst to more rational spending,” he added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Because the next batch of plants won't be siblings; they will instead be exact copies of the ones which survived the selection round - clones.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
When I said earlier that this era of Globalization 3.0 is about individuals globalizing themselves, that was largely made possible by the Apple and Windows-enabled IBM PCs and their many clones.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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Buenos Aires-based Kheiron Biotech, an equine cloning company, produced around 400 cloned horses during the season that ended in February, mostly of various polo ponies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Within a week, she says, other project managers, designers and engineers had cloned her repository to spin up their own agents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
That could produce difficulties for the cloned animals and for modern life, including the possible revival of prehistoric pathogens for which humankind has no defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
To overcome this, the researchers isolated, cloned, and grew tumor cells in the lab.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026
“A reporter came here from England talking about they cloned a sheep. Now they got stuff about cloning my mother all over.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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Sceptics initially saw the cloning as "taboo" disruptions of nature, Shoichi Ikeno, head of local diving company Lagoon, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The FBI said in April that Americans lost over $893 million last year to AI-enabled hoaxes, including voice cloning scams.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Dennhardt said restoring the island will also involve ripping out invasive plants, cloning rare plant species and seeding the landscape with natives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
In 1978, Habener set up his own lab at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, looking to capitalize on a new technology for cloning genes by studying pancreatic and other hormones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
“They did that cloning on my mother over there,” she said, surprised I hadn’t come across that fact in my research.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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