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as in image
something or someone that strongly resembles another
in adulthood he became sort of a living duplication of his late father
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as in copy
something that is made to look exactly like something else
a duplication of an ancient Chinese vase for the mass market
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as in repetition
the act of saying or doing over again
let's avoid duplication of effort on this group project if we can
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Recent Examples of duplication
By focusing on prevention, reducing duplication and avoiding unnecessary hospital visits, Meena Health delivers outcomes that are both efficient and sustainable.
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CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
One of the concerns with purchasing a registry item at another retailer is duplication.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
The duplication lets Kremlin media maintain the illusion of a single, stable seat of power.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 16 Nov. 2025
Too often, fragmented funding streams and overlapping mandates lead to duplications of assistance in some areas and critical gaps in others.
—Arif Husain, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplication
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The images revealed both the mass and an affected lymph node, confirming the presence of cancer cells.—
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Creates reminders, clicks hands-free images Cai sees the robot as a bridge for the modern family.—
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Rawlings' office provided a copy of it to The Enquirer upon request.—
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The film’s star, Whitney Houston, would deliver a version that became the world’s best-selling single that year, shifting some 25 million copies, and winning several Grammys.—
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This completes one repetition, or rep, of the movement.—
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In a media environment dominated by speed and repetition, images are now interpreted through existing symbolic frameworks before political meaning has time to settle.—
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The pair welcomed twins Alexander and Ella in June 2017.—
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Tommy is the first born of the twins.—
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Canvases by Norwegian painter Tyra Tingleff incorporated reproductions of the infamous photos of a nude Le Corbusier, brush in hand.—
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The goal of the effort is to locate reproductive female pythons and then humanely euthanize them, preventing further reproduction.—
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Bagail 8-piece Packing Cube Set While dress codes during the day skew casual on board a ship, passengers do like to dress up at night, which means the pressure is on to pull together a classy outfit that’s not on repeat.—
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First up, three items inspired by Oprah’s most recent outfit repeat.—
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Those duplicates remain yours and yours alone, housed faraway in the event of a disaster.—
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In total, Jim amassed 262 pages of spreadsheets and a final count of 1,531 pairs of unique socks, with no duplicates.—
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Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, keeps a replica of the Rosebud sled in his home.—
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But in 12 of the cases, the person targeted was not armed, including several people who were later found in possession of replica firearms.—
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“Duplication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplication. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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