The word 'duplicates' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to copies or identical versions of something. Example: The company discovered that there were duplicates of their financial records, causing confusion and delays in their audit process.
In retrospect, the city council's pronouncements back then were as troubling as they are now: the books in question, it said, were "duplicates, outdated or otherwise obsolete".
They know two of the four are duplicates.
All "coffee table books" were also part of the clear out, as were duplicates, foreign language material and items now available as an electronic resource.
The fingerprints are now being cross-checked at a central server that will remove duplicates, if all goes to plan.But registration alone was chaotic.
(Modern photocopiers act as big digital scanners with a printer attached rather than using the traditional analogue photographic process and can produce image files as well as printed duplicates).He first checked that optical character recognition (OCR) was not enabled.
The regime even forged its own currency: the contractors printing bank notes for the government were caught producing more than one note for each serial number, and trousering the duplicates.
More than a quarter of the names on the list were found to be duplicates or bogus.
Pro-democracy activists say that, aside from inflating the voters' list with duplicates, tactics include bribing or intimidating voters and changing results after votes are cast.
The electoral register is still hopelessly flawed, with an estimated 5m of its 17m voters thought to be fraudulently listed or duplicates.
The PCGG was unable to say immediately whether any or all of the 15 works seized might be authentic or duplicates, or forgeries.
Unlike India, Indonesia does not stagger its election, though some Christian districts will be allowed to delay voting a few days.Most seriously, questions have been raised about the voters' lists, after a scandal this year over a governor's election in East Java, in which more than a quarter of the names on the list were found to be duplicates or bogus.
