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replicate

[rep-li-kit, rep-li-keyt] / ˈrɛp lɪ kɪt, ˈrɛp lɪˌkeɪt /


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Turning off the faucet: Antiretroviral therapy doesn't eliminate HIV altogether, but it minimizes its ability to replicate.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Forever, the strategy for fishing with artificial lures has been to “match the hatch”—to replicate the baitfish, bugs and other prey that fish snack on.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

“It doesn’t matter how many steps I take, it doesn’t replicate how I feel in Europe.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

For Lily Redman, a 26-year-old content creator from South Wales, digital cameras "capture a quality that my phone just can't replicate".

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

“Combining the melanoma cells with healthy rat skin cells to see if we can replicate the kind of alteration in the subject’s anatomy.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

At just 6mph, it replicates the kind of annoying prang you might well get in a car park or at a traffic light.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

Coffin replicates Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 “The Great Train Robbery,” often considered one of the first films that used editing for storytelling — and one of the first action movies ever.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

No. The virus replicates more slowly and appears to be less deadly than the more common Zaire ebolavirus, according to studies.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Infected rodents don’t get symptoms, but the virus replicates in their cells.

From Salon May 9, 2026

Science replicates itself by indoctrination, since scientific communities work most efficiently when they are agreed about what they are trying to do.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Biddle warned this reduction was replicated at zoos across the UK.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Thrive Eternal, which focuses on assets that can’t be replicated by technology, bought a stake in Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

But in April this year, the New York City-based entity created the new investment arm Thrive Eternal in order to invest in areas that have "qualities that cannot be replicated by technology".

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

I wonder at what is real and what is replicated, the braiding of genuine and fake.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Around 3 a.m. one night, they observed one of their viruses successfully replicating, and infecting and killing bacterial cells.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

But replicating the Lagos model across the whole country will take time.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

By replicating the action of this hormone, GLP-1 drugs have proven highly effective at managing type 2 diabetes and promoting weight loss.

From Science Daily Jul. 8, 2026

He has issued numerous written statements on policy matters but is far from replicating the one-man rule of his father.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics—a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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