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duplications

noun

plural of duplication

as in pictures

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 copies

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 repetitions

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 duplications This advanced method can distinguish between harmless duplications and those that disrupt genes, offering families actionable diagnoses and enabling better care planning. — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 A lot of eukaryotic genes are also close relatives of one another, brought about by multiple duplications of an ancestral gene. — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026 This is why most genome duplications get lost to time. — Ari Daniel, NPR, 19 May 2026 Second, social programs should be reviewed for redundancies and duplications. — Rose Evans may 6, Idaho Statesman, 6 May 2026 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 These secondary variants took many forms, including both small changes and large deletions, duplications and expansions of their DNA. — Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025 The company is also offering free key duplications for seniors who participate. — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Starting in the 1930s, as talking pictures and then radio and TV supplanted theater as the prime form of mass entertainment, some were converted to cinemas.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
And, apparently, the eerie pictures are turning people's stomachs.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

Original gold clocks, marquetry cabinets, and full-size copies of the two Velásquez paintings that previously belonged to the palacio (but are now in the Prado) harken back to the building’s past.

— Eddi Fiegel, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2026
In July, the Western District of Louisiana issued an order authorizing the court, instead of the habeas petitioners, to serve defendants copies of the lawsuit.

— Carla Astudillo, ProPublica, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of copies

Noun

Yayoi Kusama, whose obsessive repetitions of dots and nets became a means of expressing infinity, leaving an indelible mark on contemporary art worldwide, died on August 14 of multiple organ failure at a hospital in Tokyo.

— Tessa Solomon for ARTnews, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026
Perform five to eight repetitions, then reverse the direction.

— Sophia Dyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of repetitions

Noun

The trove of women’s bloomers, drawers, knickers, brassieres, corsets, and girdles is just a small part of the school’s historic clothing collection, with images shared by the University of Wyoming Libraries via JSTOR.

— April White, JSTOR Daily, 2 Sep. 2026
Her paintings, like her images, feel like moving through a fog made of glass and wood, chaos and restraint, Lilith in a Victorian steel mill.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of images

Noun

One can imagine the burden of splitting up a valuable estate and the myriad decisions about how to run it posthumously, such as whether to license the name or make reproductions.

— Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026
The widely available listings are reproductions, not salvaged restaurant fixtures.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of reproductions

Noun

Don’t expect too many repeats here; Turner bakes with the seasons, with interesting flavor combos.

— The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
Sexuality and identity become intertwined, while the complexity of a person is reduced to categories that culture, including cinema, repeats.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of repeats

Noun

The search for Earth twins Since the 1990s, scientists have cataloged more than 6,300 worlds orbiting stars other than our sun.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
While chatting with the actor, 72, about his new documentary Water Wars, Quaid also opens up to PEOPLE about his 18-year-old twins, Thomas and Zoe, leaving for college, marking a major new chapter for the proud dad.

— Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026

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