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as in reproduced
to make an exact likeness of
for the movie, set designers copied the Oval Office in the White House down to the smallest detail
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as in imitated
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior
she shamelessly copies her idol's hairstyle and fashion choices
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Recent Examples of copied
David Pakman, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Digital content, by its nature, can be endlessly reproduced or copied.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
The resulting conflict between their different cultures and personalities is so standard, the script could have been copied and pasted from other situation comedies.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
For example, in an enterprise RAG workflow, data may be copied from storage into a vector database that encodes the vector and then writes that embedding back to storage.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
The products appear copied and pasted from another website.
—Rochelle Blease, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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Digital works can be easily copied and might eventually be digested by LLMs, anyway.
—David Pakman, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Digital content, by its nature, can be endlessly reproduced or copied.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
The resulting conflict between their different cultures and personalities is so standard, the script could have been copied and pasted from other situation comedies.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
For example, in an enterprise RAG workflow, data may be copied from storage into a vector database that encodes the vector and then writes that embedding back to storage.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
The products appear copied and pasted from another website.
—Rochelle Blease, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for copied
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Digital content, by its nature, can be endlessly reproduced or copied.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
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This article originally appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft and was reproduced with permission.Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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Apollo and Blackstone have synthetically replicated the traditional commercial banking model.Don Muir, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Aguirre says the team replicated various scenarios, like going to Costco for big shopping trips, to see how the shelf and cargo space holds up.Kristin Shaw, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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From Wrestlemania to Westerns, American culture and its archetypes are exported to, and emulated in, nearly every corner of the globe.Kyle Denis, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
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Whatever behaviors leaders engage in, those are emulated by some of their followers, whether those are positive or negative.Joyce E. A. Russell, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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All but the two notifications about Iran were privately rendered, but Brandt and the experts’ chair told me that, unlike the Justice Department, the intelligence agencies have no rule against publicizing allegations about a foreign influence plot in the days before the vote.David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Bid instead on this Richard Mille model created in collaboration with tennis champ Rafael Nadal—rendered here in the red, white, and blue of Brady’s New England Patriots.Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2024
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That is, the mimic leaves were longer, and less lobed.Ari Daniel, NPR, 14 Sep. 2024
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Sting is also a mimic, able to copy Charlotte’s whistle, even though, as the slightly creepy would-be scientist living upstairs tells her, spiders don’t have vocal cords.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
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The funny thing is that the designs Mr. Reed has in mind for these ladies are as derivative and unoriginal as his monologues, and that’s kind of the point.Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
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The bourbon shelf is overflowing with unoriginal ‘me-too’ bottles.Rachel King, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
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This canned cocktail lured me in with promises of gin, cucumber, lemon and seltzer.Felicia Campbell, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
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This year, attendees will get to explore the Harley-Davidson Museum after-hours while sipping on different kinds of wine from dozens of wineries—as well as canned cocktails and spirits—and dancing to live music.Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
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Aziz rolled out a summer crime imitative in 2021, shortly after his tenure began.Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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The Emory oak restoration imitative to preserve groves in the region recently marked its fifth anniversary, Peacey said.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
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“Copied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copied. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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