"duplicate the work" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when someone is being asked to replicate or copy a task or assignment that has already been completed. Example: "I need you to duplicate the work you did last week for the marketing presentation. We have a new client who needs the same information."
But when researchers could not duplicate the work, it became "a bizarre thing that had no place in science".
The problem is that that agency cannot duplicate the work of the U.N., which operates in dozens of countries where the United States has no aid presence.
Carlos Warner, who represents several Guantanamo detainees, said that appointing an envoy to look into transfers would likely duplicate the work of already existing – and currently ineffective – officials.
It is also able to "shape the market" by discouraging people from setting up charities that might duplicate the work of others.
But Judge David G. Larimer of United States District Court in Rochester ruled the patent invalid because it did not contain a detailed enough written description of the invention nor enough information to enable others to duplicate the work.
Aid projects were approved only if they were sustainable and did not duplicate the work of others.From 1966 to 1991, Botswana's economy grew faster than almost any other in the world.
Officials opposed to the 21-person panel say it merely duplicates the work of existing agencies.
Duplicating the work of his sunglasses is an arcade-shaped shadow formed by Umbo's two arms holding up a camera.
The performance review panel duplicated the work of several previous California studies and was in some respects modeled on the National Performance Review overseen by Vice President Al Gore,in 1993 and 1994.
But since one bank accounting program is much like another, that means that at any given time computer programmers at one bank are duplicating the work of programmers at another.
Berg made a number of conscious choices in carrying elements from the film to the series, such that much of the work that went into the creation of the pilot duplicated the work that was done on the film.
