duplication
noun
also ˌdyü-\
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Synonyms
alter ego, carbon, carbon copy, clone, counterpart, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), double, duplicate, facsimile, fetch, image, likeness, look-alike, match, mirror image, picture, replica, ringer, spit, spitting image, twin
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Currently, many school districts operate independently in a state with 169 cities and towns that Lamont says has led to duplication of efforts and increased costs through the years. — Christopher Keating, courant.com, "Gov. Ned Lamont advocates joy of learning in high-pressure world of academics," 27 Aug. 2019 Callon and Carrizo each employ more than 200 people, so some layoffs will be expected where there is duplication. — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, "Callon Petroleum acquires Carrizo Oil in $1.21B merger of Houston firms," 15 July 2019 This will assist our editors in preventing duplication. — Los Angeles Times, "Guidelines for Submitting a Press Release," 22 July 2019 But because carrying so much genetic material can also be physiologically taxing, natural selection typically followed up these duplication events by aggressively pruning unneeded sequences. — Quanta Magazine, "With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over the World," 16 June 2019 The structure leads to duplication with multiple human resources, procurement and legal departments and slows down decision-making as sister agencies often weigh in on decisions, Ms. Wylde said. — Paul Berger, WSJ, "Cuomo’s Talk of Tearing Up MTA Timed to Upcoming Budget Season," 8 Jan. 2019 Pernod could now follow Diageo’s playbook by addressing the duplication of costs caused by its more decentralized way of doing business. — Carol Ryan, WSJ, "Elliott Can’t Pick a Fight With Pernod Ricard," 12 Dec. 2018 The telomere handles all of that, protecting the ends and providing a mechanism for their duplication. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Gene editing crunches an organism’s genome into single, giant DNA molecule," 3 Aug. 2018 That allowed Mizuuchi and Ichihashi to follow them across multiple generation of duplication, tracking their population dynamics and evolution. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "New system shows the earliest life could cooperate despite “cheaters”," 3 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'duplication.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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