reduplicate

verb

ri-ˈdü-pli-ˌkāt How to pronounce reduplicate (audio)
Definition of reduplicatenext
1
as in to reproduce
to make an exact likeness of reduplicate a recording of the concert for my friend

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2
as in to repeat
to make or do again found out halfway through the project that I was reduplicating another team member's efforts, so we had to figure out who was going to do what

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reduplicate
  1. reproduce
  2. repeat
  3. copy
  4. replicate
  5. render
  6. renew
  7. imitate
  8. duplicate
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  • No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    Liz McNeil, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The trick is to reproduce that resilience by bundling and gluing individual slats.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of reproduce
Verb
  • Ephron’s comment was based on the opinion that marketers were helping to create ad avoidance with strategies that inundated persons with repeating the same ads over and over again.
    Brad Adgate, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Trump, who had fought to keep the report secret, criticized the findings on Truth Social and repeated false claims about the House committee that investigated Jan. 6. — CNBC’s Hakyung Kim, Annika Kim Constantino, Salvador Rodriguez, Gabrielle Fonrouge and NBC News contributed to this report.
    Michele Luhn, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of repeat
Verb
  • Young people copied her contemporary African fashion sense, wearing a turban with a formal suit or painting tribal dots on her face as part of her makeup.
    Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Powered by Gen 2 USB-C technology, the hub’s USB-A 3.2 ports offer the kind of performance that can copy 3,000 high-res images in around 60 seconds.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of copy
Verb
  • The numbers suggest Lamar Jackson should repeat as MVP, but the challenge has been replicating his regular-season play in the postseason.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • So that’s what Jan does, replicating himself with carefree abandon.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of replicate
Verb
  • The Visual Medium Has a Message How does the medium in which an image is rendered, its materiality, shape our perception of the subject matter?
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Some have suggested a reduction of as much as 95% in nicotine from what's currently found on the market, essentially rendering them nonaddictive.
    Tina Reed, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of render
Verb
  • The state Insurance Department issued a new regulation last month meant to turn the tide of some of the largest insurance companies’ refusal to take on new customers in California or decisions not to renew policies of current ones.
    Janhvi Bhojwani, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Insurers including State Farm, which dropped nearly 70% of policyholders in Pacific Palisades in July 2024, refused to offer new insurance plans or renew old ones.
    Alana Semuels, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of renew
Verb
  • Paul Barrett: Zuckerberg Is Appeasing Trump Zuckerberg is imitating Musk to curry favor with Trump.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • However, just months after their characters shared their first kiss in 2019's in Spider-Man: Far from Home, life imitated art for the pair.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of imitate
Verb
  • Late last month, the internet nearly broke over Walmart’s $78 Hermès Birkin duplicate, which social media users quickly dubbed the 'Wirkin' bag.
    Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Even after a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, it’s only being reinforced not duplicated with other infrastructures.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of duplicate
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