Example Sentences

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In the UK, all their album releases have registered top 10 showings, a feat that they have duplicated in the U.S. since the mega-selling "Violator" LP in 1990.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2023

The more eyes on something you’ve written, the more likely you are to have duplicated a word or added an erroneous vowel.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2022

Having staff nurses always nearby allowed us to provide comfort, relying on a team we never could have duplicated on our own.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2022

In the past, scientists committing fraud are known to have duplicated data as an easy way to make them up.

From Science Magazine • May 6, 2021

The excited cry, which no human throat could quite have duplicated accurately, arose thinly from the depths of a powder-dry gulch, water-scarred from an inconceivable antiquity.

From The Eternal Wall by Gallun, Raymond Z.