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(2021) (Journal of Business &amp; Economic Statistics, 39:1, 98\u2013119) find that random forest (RF) outperforms US inflation forecasting benchmarks. We replicate the main results in Medeiros et al. (2021) and (1) considerably expand the set of machine learning methods, (2) analyse the predictive ability of both the initial and extended sets of methods on Canadian and UK data, (3) add results on coverage rates and widths of prediction intervals and (4) extend the sample from January 2016 to October 2022. Our narrow replication confirms the main findings of the original paper. However, the wider replication results suggest that other methods are competitive with RF and often more accurate. 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