duplicating

present participle of duplicate
1
as in copying
to make an exact likeness of art students trying to duplicate paintings in the museum's collection as part of their training

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as in replicating
to make or do again we were unable to duplicate the experiment in our own lab, so we're suspicious

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Recent Examples of duplicating The country plans to expand LNG capacity from 77 million tons per year to 142 million by 2030, and duplicating that infrastructure isn’t feasible. — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026 That does not mean flexibility everywhere; duplicating every workload across clouds usually costs more than the option is worth. — Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Rather, each pair should serve a distinct purpose instead of duplicating another one already hanging in the closet. — Alesandra Dubin, Glamour, 31 July 2026 Detroit still has Cade Cunningham, but duplicating last season will be tough. — David Aldridge, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Fiber-optic, first-person view (FPV) drones have become a key weapon in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah’s war against Israel in recent months – bypassing Israel’s sophisticated defense systems by duplicating an asymmetric warfare tactic that first emerged in the Russia-Ukraine war. — Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 28 June 2026 Creating parallel capabilities overseas risks duplicating existing infrastructure while diverting attention and resources from the interventions most likely to bring the outbreak under control. — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 5 June 2026 But Elliott’s openness to the idea of duplicating a move his father made 25 years ago was greeted with near-unanimous approval online. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2026 Then a bipartisan team will remake the ballot in a process known as duplicating. — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicating
Verb
  • But copying human anatomy makes the hands heavier, and LinkerBot concedes that fingertip force is modest.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Boorady spent 10 hours in the real Oval Office this summer, taking photographs and scanning every one of those gold fixtures, documenting every detail, and then copying them.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
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  • And building the code is different from replicating everything that sits below the waterline.
    — Paul Lachance, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Meloni’s move comes as governments, regulators and public figures grapple with the rapid spread of artificial intelligence tools capable of convincingly replicating voices and images.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
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  • The club added 40% more headcount, which included doubling its marketing department.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Brighton City Council voted Tuesday night to move forward with a one-year moratorium on data centers, doubling the six-month pause originally proposed.
    — Tori Mason, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That approach indicates that Cardsmiths isn’t exclusively reproducing the card but offering its own take.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • It was found able to self-replicate via cell division at a temperature of 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit) and was still fully active, albeit no longer reproducing, at 64 degrees C (147 degrees F).
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • One of the most important lessons from my coaching career is that repeating the same instruction louder or more often is not the same as adapting your coaching.
    — Irma Davarashvili, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • These materials mimic important structural features of quasicrystals while having a repeating crystal structure that can be studied experimentally.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
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  • Thanks to the grays that keep multiplying by the year, my roots now demand a monthly refresh.
    — Beth Sobol, Flow Space, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Focus on the bad ones, and predictors keep multiplying, needing constant updates as fraud evolves.
    — Wayne Hamilton, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Officers brought Bottom down and began rendering aid before medics arrived and rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • All four of those songs all also appear on proper albums, some in superior re-recordings, rendering the compilation a little redundant.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For Thorpe, renewing this proposition of difference doesn’t necessarily mean more athletes, but more compelling athletes stories instead, where the players have influence and creative input — not just a standard sponsorship.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
  • David Fincher isn’t renewing his pact at Netflix after his deal at the streamer expires next year.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

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“Duplicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicating. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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