duplicate
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The ECI has rejected allegations of impropriety, saying the revision was intended to remove duplicate and ineligible voters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
The Election Commission says it is to remove duplicate and ineligible entries - and so far, 130 million names have been struck off the voters' list.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
We spent many weekends sorting through all the photo albums and loose photos we’d amassed or inherited, tossing the duplicate pictures and trashing my dad’s slides that were impossible to view easily.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
While many were due to duplicate entries or deceased voters, some were also flagged by computer programs for having especially large families or improbable age gaps between parents and children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
There I am in her mirror eyes, in duplicate and monochrome, and a great deal smaller than life-sized.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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In total it has nearly 15 million 'lines' of data, but some of these are thought to be duplicates.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
It could withhold files if they are duplicates; fall under attorney-client privilege; could hurt a continuing investigation; or are completely unrelated to the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Miguel Sangalang, director of the Bureau of Street Lighting, said there are 33,000 open service requests to fix streetlights across L.A., although some may be duplicates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
“Before you go out and shop, check all the cupboards,” she said, to avoid buying duplicates.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 25, 2026
The mousy brown librarian has sent copies of the Tavernier and the Streeter and even—most remarkably— stencil duplicates of de Boodt’s 1604 Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, written entirely in Latin.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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They uncovered thousands of structural variants, including DNA segments that had been duplicated, deleted, or rearranged.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Across volatile regions, some critical infrastructure, like desalination plants and data centers, will need to be fortified with layers of reinforced concrete, duplicated to provide backups or potentially relocated underground—at significant cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Its elements have been duplicated, sampled and reimagined so many times that it now exists in countless forms, offering endless ways in.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Nevertheless, some of the works involved are "especially popular and duplicated many times online", making it difficult to exclude them completely from training data.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Buck duplicated the manœuvre, this time to the left.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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With no perfect solution yet, companies are adding different sensor systems as well as duplicating those that already come as standard to provide extra back-up.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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
Sophie grabbed a leaflet and noted that it had been produced on a duplicating machine.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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