Duplicates in Photos

Is there way to use the new Photos App to search for duplicates in my photo library?
TIA

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Unfortunately at this time there are no tools within Photos to search for and remove duplicates and no suitable workarounds to the problem.
I understand that PowerPhotos will have this feature when it's released shortly.

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