DUPLICATIONS Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

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 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

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Noun

Gacy painted over a thousand pictures, many of clowns, while on death row in the 1980s and 1990s.

— Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
To my eye, the differences between the 17 Pro and Duo in good lighting were minimal, but the Duo did capture marginally better detail in low light (see the cat pictures).

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

Smith also explained what would happen if a legal challenge ultimately failed, including continuity arrangements with European partners and backup copies of Microsoft’s code held in Switzerland.

— Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Lizzo gave away copies of her book to students in kindergarten through third grade at the school.

— Leondra Head, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of copies

Noun

Perform 5 to 10 repetitions of whichever variation is appropriate for you.

— Dana Santas, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of repetitions

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

Rights, approvals and protections for digital replicas, voice, likeness and content now have to be addressed up front, not as an afterthought.

— Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of replicas

Noun

Harris pointed to Harris and Gill’s healthy older child, who was also living in the home, as evidence that something else was going on with the twins.

— Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
The pathologists who examined the twins also said their causes of death were undetermined, Filicetti said.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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