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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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Antonyms
STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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He called Seydou a clone of Travis Kelce, whom he coached at Cincinnati and helped convert into one of the best tight ends in NFL history.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

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

Despite riding and competing on a clone, Krajewski said she wouldn’t consider cloning her Olympic gold-medal-winning mare, Amande de B’Neville.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

Today, when we hear the word clone, we imagine scientists creating entire living animals —like Dolly the famous cloned sheep—using DNA from one parent.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

The sport now cultivates clones of Mr. Ryan throwing as hard as possible with maximum spin on the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

These reconstructions allowed them to trace the origins of cancer clones, groups of genetically identical cells that later contributed to disease progression.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 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 still the terrible fate of the other clones to consider.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

"I genuinely thought someone had cloned my details - one transaction was by someone who bought a car. I thought they'd spent £8,000 of my money."

From BBC Mar. 27, 2026

Recently, researchers cloned and expressed another rattlesnake serine protease known as cholinein-1.

From Science Daily Nov. 18, 2025

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

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

Equine cloning is gaining popularity in horse sports, with clones and their offspring emerging in top competitions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 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

The release of legitimate investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein has also fed unfounded theories about baby farms, murder and cloning.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 25, 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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