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duplicate

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






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"A single national testing body offers common security standards, technology, candidate services and result procedures. Creating many new agencies could duplicate costs and produce uneven safeguards," he told PTI news agency.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

Existing law allows community colleges to create up to 30 new bachelor’s degree programs a year if they don’t duplicate CSU, UC or private four-year offerings.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

The bill may also contain coding errors, duplicate charges or costs that should have been covered.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

She spent months on the effort, refusing to duplicate submissions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

“It’s possible, but unlikely that you’ll get your shot. Remember, in the original timeline, he took his own picture accidentally. How can you duplicate such a random event? He sure won’t pose for you willingly.”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Brands issue warnings as more creators use avatars and duplicates of themselves to boost affiliate sales.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

A search for his surname on the DOJ website returns over 2,000 results, though many of those are duplicates, and Elkholy said the files show he only met Epstein 10-12 times over a 10-year period.

From BBC Mar. 27, 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

This includes Medicare and Medi-Cal explanations of benefits, monthly statements, hospice and medical visit records, and all duplicates.

From MarketWatch Jan. 27, 2026

But on the number sphere, the two curves are duplicates of each other; they are mirror images.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

They uncovered thousands of structural variants, including DNA segments that had been duplicated, deleted, or rearranged.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 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

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

The climate itself made for an ease of living that could never be duplicated in this bleak, barren countryside.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

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

"They told me it was NatWest fraud - which is who I bank with - and they said we've arrested two men in Merseyside for duplicating your card," she said.

From BBC Apr. 18, 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

Day and night, they printed thousands of new, even bolder, leaflets on a hand-cranked duplicating machine, possibly purchased with the money Sophie asked to borrow from Fritz.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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