Example Sentences

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Now that those resistant bed bugs have survived and procreated, humans are the ones who must adapt.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2024

The second, more damning letter, reads like a manifesto and notes that "persistence procreated the resistance."

From Fox News • May 21, 2019

Any American who has ever procreated knows what a racket the baby industry is.

From Time • Dec. 1, 2014

Do we look at men who have somehow not procreated as missing out? 

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2012

As the worm had procreated during that day, it had forced computers all over the network to attack each other in ever greater numbers.

From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette