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
Some worry about losing the ability to breed ever-better horses and happy accidents that push the sport forward, if too many people decide to opt for a clone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
There may still be time to rescue LA2028 from another anodyne, wholly wholesome Sam clone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
But it was an AI clone, making the American mother yet another victim of a growing wave of impersonation scams.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
“The important thing is to get this clone to the hospital, where it can do some good,” said Steven.
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
Within months, it entered the mainstream lexicon as a way to describe any AI-generated synthetic media that realistically clones a person’s image or voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
There was a long list of the different HeLa clones anyone could buy for $167 a vial.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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But his highest level of fame came from playing a thoughtful paleontologist summoned to an island off Costa Rica full of cloned dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” in 1993.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Still, cloned horses can reproduce normally, so bloodlines that would have been lost can be reintroduced and improved upon.
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
However, the cloned seedlings are cultivated and grown, again over years, to another selection point.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
When I looked out the window a few minutes later, Markie had seemingly cloned himself and there were fifty, sixty, I don’t know, hundreds of him running around the yard.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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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
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
Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technology has demolished the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing cybercriminals strikingly convincing voice cloning tools to steal from people by mimicking loved ones.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
The developer has issued a copyright takedown request in a bid to prevent competitors from cloning the coding tool’s features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
But before the cloning of whole animals, there was the cloning of individual cells —Henrietta’s cells.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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