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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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She feared being called a clone, or a try-hard who’d hopped on a trend.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Throughout her first pregnancy, Wang Yifan had lots of questions, which she usually put to renowned obstetrician Duan Tao -- or rather, an AI clone of the top Shanghai-based doctor.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

"It's better to sound like you with a few mistakes than a perfect clone."

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

To clone their voices, No ID had them read a standardized voice-over script to capture tone, dictation and voice characteristics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

In the same two-year period, fifteen hundred miles away, near Buffalo, New York, another man — a kind of Boss Man clone — worked the distressed downtown streets of Jamestown.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell