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Can we clone it?
Definition
to make a copy of something — especially a genetically identical copy created with technology
- 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.p. 23.8
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- He was in a lineup; fingers pointed at him, faces scowled, while some rabid Bernice clone set fire to his undershorts.p. 215.9
- None of those little girls had ever seemed real to Jimmy they'd always struck him as digital clones — but for some reason Oryx was three-dimensional from the start.p. 90.2
- It was either her or a clone.p. 182.5
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