All 7 Uses

clone
in
Lucky, by Sebold
(Auto-generated)

As Clones we decided to room together off campus.
Chpt 11 *

clones = copies
Lila and I had begun, sometime that winter, to call each other Clone.†
Chpt 11
By being my clone, she could seem a bit more daring and wild than she really was; I could pretend that I was a normal college coed whose life revolved as much around my classes and food runs to Marshall Street as it did a rape trial.†
Chpt 11 *
"Now we really are clones," I said.†
Chpt 13
Lila was my clone, my friend, my sister.†
Chpt 13
Clones.†
Chpt 13
But we were clones.†
Chpt 13

Definitions:

(1) (clone as in: Can we clone it?)
to make a copy of something -- especially a genetically identical copy created with technology
(2) (clone as in: It is a clone.)
a copy of something -- especially an organism with identical genetics created through technology
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)