Example Sentences

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Bob Libal, a Texas-based consultant to HRW, panned Mr. Abbott’s call for stiffer state laws, saying Texas is duplicating what the feds already do but without the resources and training to do it right.

From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2023

"Being a good second unit director is duplicating the style of the first unit director so that it's a seamless piece of photography," he explained.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2013

Morton's Interior Department has griped that Sawhill's FEA is duplicating Interior's contingency planning to deal with a possible coal strike this fall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or perhaps he is duplicating an attitude of some one studied in a Michigan Avenue club entrance.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

If the pastor can speak through the press as well as the pulpit, he is duplicating his influence.

From The Making of a Country Parish by Harlow S.