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 art establishment often drew on, if not directly copied, Kusama’s work.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Much of the content generated promoted an organization called the International Burke Institute (IBI), the website of which features articles copied from real academic writing, sometimes with false attribution.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of copied
Verb
  • Many parents believe travel provides educational experiences that cannot be replicated in a classroom.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In doing so, NYCG can create a paradigm-shifting model, providing a blueprint for how FAM could be embedded within future grocery stores and replicated nationwide.
    — Marian Flaxman, New York Daily News, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of replicated
Verb
  • While far off its 2008 highs, BlackBerry's share price has doubled this year as investors reward the company's strategy to focus on critical software for cars and secure communications.
    — Arjun Kharpal,Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The rate of ice loss from glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, which includes Nepal, have doubled since 2000, according to recent ICIMOD research.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 28 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
  • However, another email reproduced in the filing states that after about a week, Sotheby’s removed the photograph from its website at the request of the artist’s representative.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • What survived was not the work that could be reproduced by a machine.
    — David Woodard, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of reproduced
Verb
  • Angus Young has repeated in interviews over the years that all this imagery and lyrical content about hell and the devil was pure tongue-in-cheek theatrics and nothing more.
    — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The range has been repeated across the Nigerian business press for four months with a confidence its authors never claimed for it.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of repeated
Verb
  • Those amounts look modest until multiplied across the thousands of similar individual claims now pending.
    — Carolina Rossini, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026
  • That single decision, multiplied across a school district, then a state, then dozens of states, is how the United States found itself, over the summer, with the worst measles year in 35 years.
    — A.J. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of multiplied

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“Duplicated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicated. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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