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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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Cheat Code: Chinese AI companies attempted to clone American AI models by funneling real Chinese user queries to them via a network of intermediate platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Ultimately, trying to clone Obama is likely to be a fool’s errand.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Among the study participants, the largest individual clone represented an average of 33.3% of all CD4 CTLs.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

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

Matt knew he was El Patron’s clone, but he was unclear about the meaning of the word.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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 reversed its 2007 ban on clones in 2012, finding no unfair competitive advantage.

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

Like most humans, he didn’t like talking to clones, but he also didn’t want to anger El Patron.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

It will be hosted in University of Edinburgh buildings on the outskirts of Penicuik and Roslin in Midlothian, near the institute where Dolly the sheep was cloned.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

The plate is a confirmed cloned tag used by a DHS surveillance task force.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 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

To overcome this, the researchers isolated, cloned, and grew tumor cells in the lab.

From Science Daily Mar. 21, 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

As high-quality synthetic re-creations become cheap and accessible, cloning has become a more desirable option for studios struggling with runaway production costs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

The Overton window for acceptable AI use in Hollywood continues to widen as Hollywood actors, television hosts, and influencers embrace cloning with protections and compensation.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Now cloning is becoming more popular in other disciplines.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

Simple internet searches can surface a wide array of voice cloning apps, many available for free, that create realistic AI replicas using small samples -- sometimes only seconds -- of a person's real voice.

From Barron's Jun. 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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