duplicated 1 of 2

adjective

as in reproduced

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duplicated

2 of 2

verb

past tense of duplicate
1
as in copied
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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2
as in replicated
to make or do again we were unable to duplicate the experiment in our own lab, so we're suspicious

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3
as in doubled
to make twice as great or as many the recipe can be easily duplicated in order to feed a large family

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Recent Examples of duplicated
Adjective
This creates duplicated infrastructure, inconsistent models, and operational complexity. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026 The duplicated sets and near-complete location builds enable the filmmakers to make the most of Carol’s house as a setting. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
Verb
The two studio lots also boast dozens of soundstages; century-old fortresses that would not be easily duplicated. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 Likewise, securing and even identifying rights continues to be a problem, which can even extend to subtitles, which might be copyrighted and need to be duplicated, causing unnecessary expenses. — John Bleasdale, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026 Across federal, state, and local government, agencies have historically solved similar technology problems independently through separate procurement cycles, isolated vendor contracts, and duplicated development spending. — William Jones, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 If that can be duplicated, replicated, and even improved upon, all the better, and all the more worth celebrating and examining. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2026 Mavromihalis said the home belongs in a category where location and water access can’t be duplicated. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026 China also retrieved the first-ever soil samples from the far side of the moon, a feat no other nation has duplicated. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026 Unfortunately, this information is frequently disconnected, duplicated or difficult to access. — Monica Hovsepian, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 Angela George The recount board is sticking around after business hours for now to tabulate ballots that needed to be duplicated after the voting machine could not read or decipher the ballot. — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 8 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicated
  1. photocopied
  2. copied
  3. replicated
  4. doubled
  5. transcribed
  6. reproduced
  7. repeated
  8. multiplied
Adjective
  • Alves described how black-and-white prints with a photocopied feel, Japanese and Chinese-inspired graphics and animal prints transform basic jeans into pieces worthy of going viral online.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Apatow had with him a chaotic pile of notes—scrawled by hand, photocopied, clearly out of order, some upside down.
    — Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Definition of photocopied
Verb
  • The indictment also alleges F-9 broke into the National Alliance’s West Virginia headquarters in 2014, stole approximately 25 boxes of records, brought them to North Carolina to be copied, and then returned the originals.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026
  • However, the scammer had copied it from an earlier property listing.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of copied
Verb
  • Bryan Schreier, a partner at Sequoia (which led Zum’s 2017 Series A), says another of Zum’s big value propositions is that it cannot be replicated by an Uber, Lyft or even OpenAI.
    — Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Everything the city has done, transit activists say, can be replicated elsewhere.
    — Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of replicated
Verb
  • Our linen closet has long doubled as a medicine station — stocked with bronchodilators, pinworm pills, antiviral medication, pain relief patches, pulse oximeters and nebulizers, vials of Prednisone, even EpiPen injectors.
    — Allan Ripp, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • There’s the fact that the share of the national income that the country’s wealthiest controlled by the end of the 2010s had nearly doubled since the 1970s—but for the bottom 50 percent of Americans, it had been cut nearly in half.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of doubled
Adjective
  • The transcribed interview is a test of how much scrutiny lawmakers will apply to powerful men who kept company with Epstein even after his conviction.
    — Stephen Groves, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • The Microsoft co‑founder is scheduled to sit for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on June 10, a source familiar with the proceedings confirmed to USA TODAY.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of transcribed
Verb
  • Numerical simulations reproduced the experimental results and indicated that nonreciprocal pair propulsion is the minimal mechanism needed to sustain the unusual cluster dynamics.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Your god-classes and workarounds become its conventions, reproduced fluently in every new file.
    — Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of reproduced
Verb
  • The rep also repeated past language neither confirming nor denying that Turbo Live runs on a 5G network slice like T-Mobile’s SuperMobile tier for business users.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
  • This is consistent across multiple studies, repeated in different countries around the world, including those mentioned in today’s press conference.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of repeated
Verb
  • The architecture and core focus of planting community seeds remained constant even as the specific interventions multiplied and deepened.
    — Mena Mirhom, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Isolating each peak required constructing a very specific function that, when multiplied by the original fractal-like function, would pull out just the peak and be close to zero everywhere else.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of multiplied

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