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duplicate

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






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Baldwin said that as soon as residents started reporting their duplicate ballots, elections staffers immediately contacted the vendor, which confirmed the evening of Oct.

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 in the "special intensive revision", saying it 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

I’m attempting to duplicate the situation the woman wrote about where she saw all the shapes in the steam.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Annarita Librari’s stunningly intricate watermark duplicates Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady With an Ermine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

Everywhere I look I see duplicates of the so-called perfect pattern.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

Rather, he said by deleting duplicated language in the charter, the rules will be easier to understand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Rather than simply carrying extra copies of the same genes, the plants gradually transformed those duplicated genomes into something different.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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

If so, the best way to find out what a gene was and how it duplicated was to study the properties of viruses.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

In the same speech, he also called on the UK government to stop duplicating the Welsh government's economic development work.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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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