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  • verb Present participle of duplicate.

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Examples

  • In Europe, subsidized passenger rail has displaced freight from trains to trucks; given traffic, highway safety and the environment, the U.S. has no interest in duplicating that experience.

    High-speed rail will take taxpayers for a ride Charles Lane 2010

  • The older women, however, worked all week and were not interested in duplicating the Titus 2 instruction when choosing a topic for ladies Bible classes.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • For his efforts in duplicating his golden trifecta from Athens, Peirsol is USATODAY. com's U.S. Olympic Athlete of the Week.

    USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Peirsol matches Athens feats 2005

  • With the idea of duplicating or surpassing the success of this woman Berenice conceived a dance series of her own.

    The Titan 2004

  • With the idea of duplicating or surpassing the success of this woman Berenice conceived a dance series of her own.

    The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • Last May I went back there, furnished with copies of those 1984 photos, with the idea of duplicating the views from a quarter century later, as well as to look around at the place myself for the first time in a decade, almost to the day.

    City in the Trees Lone Primate 2010

  • MrBabyMan steals stories from other users (aka duplicating), and then uses his power user status to get it to the front page.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • MrBabyMan steals stories from other users (aka duplicating), and then uses his power user status to get it to the front page.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • Take CBS, which is applying some strategies to big markets that used to be limited mainly to small markets, such as duplicating an AM station on the FM dial.

    Heavy Debt, Fewer Ads Put Radio Firms in a Squeeze 2008

  • Turing himself seems to have been of the opinion that a machine operating in this way would literally be doing the same things that the human performing computations is doing -- that it would be "duplicating" what the human computer does.

    The Computational Theory of Mind Horst, Steven 2005

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  • My adjectival use: 'They may use a duplicating machine or a printer.'

    August 22, 2011