Literary notes about Duplicate (AI summary)
The term “duplicate” carries a versatile presence in literary works, often denoting an exact copy or reproduction, whether in the literal sense of a key [1], a document [2] or even a nearly indistinguishable likeness of a person [3]. It appears in contexts ranging from the scientific—where researchers seek to duplicate experimental results [4], to the practical realm of legal and administrative affairs, where contracts or forms are made in duplicate [5]. Moreover, the word is employed metaphorically to comment on characteristics being replicated in nature or personal traits, as in the suggestion of a duplicate in one’s identity [3] or the exact replica of an object [6]. The usage spans from mundane, everyday situations—as when a best man carries a duplicate ring for safety [7]—to more abstract or ironic reflections, such as the replication of a trance state in experimental studies [8] and even the double-edged critique of overly mechanical reproductions in society [9].
- Then he drew out the duplicate key he always carried, and, inserting it quietly, opened the door.
— from The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston - “Please find herewith a contract in duplicate for your next book which we have taken the liberty of forwarding to you.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London - Yet he is, for all the world, in constitution and habit, a duplicate of my father.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Other investigators have been unable to duplicate this work.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Done in duplicate, at Paris, the tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris - She was the exact duplicate of the other Pharaon , and loaded, as that had been, with cochineal and indigo.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - A very careful best man carries a duplicate ring, in case of one being lost during the ceremony.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post - The University was notified and a series of exhaustive tests was begun, including attempts to duplicate the trance state on volunteers.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth - It is therefore unnecessary to duplicate the list here.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
