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The best drug-sniffing dog was cloned.

If we could clone Bella, we could grow an incredibly successful company.

They have managed to clone extinct animals from the past.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

You clone living creatures, but it is the church reminding us to consider the moral implications of our actions.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

If you believe the stories, he continued, they possessed the power of flight, they had vessels that could cross the oceans, they could control the weather and had even perfected what we would call cloning.†  (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

She had cloned Rosa Hubermann's unfortunate, waddlesome walking style, but the rest of her was much milder.†  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Because Ringer is so sweet, we decided to clone a hundred of her.  (source) Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea, 2014

It was avian cloning, a very different proposition.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

It was much cheaper than getting yourself cloned for spare parts a few wrinkles left to be ironed out there, as Jimmy's dad used to say — or keeping a for-harvest child or two stashed away in some illegal baby orchard.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

But if they cloning her cells, does that mean someday they could clone my mother?  (source) Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 2010

They even did that thing … what do you call it … um … cloning!  (source) Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 2010

My arm and fist quivered with the anticipation of smashing his vat-cloned face.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined?  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Identical, 2008

To understand differences that could be expected in human clones, it is useful to look at identical twins.

It's an iPhone clone.

My seventh I was a clone trooper.  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

This town is chockablock with restaurants that are just clones of the same old themes.  (source) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989

But I was not a clone of my father.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

On Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Tommy was a lead technical director.  (source) Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, 2008

Davis and Daisy were chatting back and forth about the dehumanization of Clone troopers, and Mychal jumped in to explain that Daisy was actually kind of a famous writer of Star Wars fan fiction.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

With her honey-blond hair hanging over her shoulders like a shawl made of silk and her low-rise jeans mail-ordered from Fred Segal, she'd spawned an entourage of clones.  (source) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007

I type these journal entries, and my homework assignments, on the little PC clone up in my bedroom.  (source) Edward Bloor, Tangerine, 1997

"Are they clones?" asked Miss Boon, squinting at them.  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

I'm his evil clone.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero, 2010

No way was I going deal with clones of the step-loser on top of everything else.  (source) P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast, Marked, 2007

Were the Stormtroopers or clone army or robot walkers next?  (source) Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave, 2013