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"It's focused too much on whether silicon can duplicate a human brain and not enough on the broader question of what kinds of systems can be conscious," he said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
Approval was then reversed after a review by Maine’s secretary of state found more than 12,500 signatures invalid for reasons ranging from duplicate signatures to signatories not matching local registration rolls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
A stage adaptation can’t duplicate the way Lumet visually distilled the rough-and-tumble New York zeitgeist of the tumultuous early 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
India's Election Commission says the revision is meant to weed out duplicate or outdated entries and add genuine voters.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Clearly this was the moment for Maurice’s boss to discuss with Bragg whether it made sense for Crick and the American to duplicate King’s heavy investment in DNA.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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The posts have no direct connection to Rare Beauty, according to a spokeswoman, who said the brand doesn’t work with AI-generated creators or duplicates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The justice department has said in response that "NOTHING has been deleted", adding that documents were withheld only if they were "duplicates, privileged, or part of an ongoing federal investigation".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
“Before you go out and shop, check all the cupboards,” she said, to avoid buying duplicates.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 25, 2026
I pushed them to get rid of the things that often they had duplicates of but weren’t necessarily something like, “Oh, I got this as a child” or “somebody got this for me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2025
Everywhere I look I see duplicates of the so-called perfect pattern.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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That means the researchers found roughly 19,000 locations where sections of DNA differed because they had been duplicated, deleted, or rearranged.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 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
Dorsey’s lieutenants often clashed in his absence, leading to teams with duplicated roles and resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
And I wrote to my loyal assistants at my newly formed Muslim Mosque, Inc. in Harlem, with a note appended, asking that my letter be duplicated and distributed to the press.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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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
The commission says the US company whose system it used maintained that "duplicating a voter on the voter list is impossible, as each voter is registered only once".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
“So we’re not reinventing or duplicating effort, we are actually supporting and elevating it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
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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