duplications

noun

plural of duplication
1
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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2
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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3
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 Each of us likely differs from it at millions of bases in our genome, and most of us probably carry some combinations of insertions, deletions, duplications, and flipped sequences. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026 Biologists hotly debate whether the significant evolutionary changes that led to jawed vertebrates, from hagfish to humans, are connected by ancient gene duplications hundreds of millions of years ago. — Carrie Arnold contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplications
  1. pictures
  2. copies
  3. repetitions
  4. images
  5. reproductions
  6. repeats
  7. replicas
  8. twins
Noun
  • Al Hassan remembers showing a group of visitors TAMM’s feature for taking pictures and reporting potholes.
    — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The men appear to have developed a close relationship and often share pictures together on their socials, including posing together at the 2021 Los Angeles premiere of the Peter Jackson’s Beatles miniseries Get Back (see above).
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of pictures
Noun
  • Researchers at the company tested how AI models might act as computer worms, programs that move between devices and leave copies of themselves behind, among everyday household gadgets.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
  • An army of Janeites, no doubt wielding their worn copies of Sense and Sensibility, are marching into cinemas around the world to watch an adaptation for a whole new generation.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of copies
Noun
  • With Dru Smith sidelined by a calf strain sustained during training camp, Larsson had wound up taking repetitions at point guard, including during that preseason-opening victory over the Raptors.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Adjust the difficulty up or down by adding or lowering repetitions, weight or speed.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of repetitions
Noun
  • His proficiency, buoyed by his expensive taste and skill in daisy-chaining images together, got his foot in the door of the indie-rap revitalization.
    — Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Two more search warrants were carried out for the TikTok account, and during an interview, deputies said the teen confessed to taking photos of a younger child and using AI to alter the images to make the child appear nude.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of images
Noun
  • On the editorial side, this includes the licenses for reproductions in books like exhibition catalogs, scholarly tomes, and even the covers of novels, as well as publications, for news coverage and criticism for exhibitions as well as general use.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • But De Kooning would apply fragments of the reproductions to new compositions, often in different orientations.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of reproductions
Noun
  • The band only disclosed that the seven shows would be color-coded to correspond to each of the seven colors of the rainbow, and that back-to-back shows would be without repeats.
    — Benjy Eisen, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026
  • When a signal repeats that consistently, clinical guidance tends to follow.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of repeats
Noun
  • In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data collected from one of the bell’s replicas.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Fitting that there are dinosaur replicas towering over the lobby that leads straight through the building.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of replicas
Noun
  • Stand runs computational fluid dynamics, physics models built on top of digital twins.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Aiming to protect what’s left of its buildings and monuments is a converted Volkswagen Crafter—the ARK III, a mobile 3D-scanning lab that creates digital twins of sacred and historical structures for future restoration.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of twins

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“Duplications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplications. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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