How to Use replication in a Sentence

replication

noun
  • In praise of the art of replication.
    Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Mind you, big, slick, and ripe for replication can have its charms, too.
    Brett Martin, GQ, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Hunter was keen to come up with a replication of this finding.
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • With two, the hope is to trap and shut down viral replication.
    Shelby Lin Erdman, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Yet in some cases, the virus takes off by rapid replication in host cells.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The virus’s rapid spread may in part result from a fast replication rate.
    Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 30 July 2021
  • But the spirit of all that is very alive in it more so than the replication of it.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 5 July 2024
  • Life-size replications of a space-shuttle flight-deck and mid-deck were made for the movie.
    Matt Wake | [email protected], al.com, 3 July 2019
  • There’s no replication at the state level.
    Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • His big idea has now been challenged by a host of replication failures.
    Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
  • These are oral and injected drugs that block the replication of the virus.
    Anju Goel, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Viruses can make thousands of copies in one round of replication.
    Maya Chung, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The space, in fact, looks ready for easy replication, which is probably the point.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Sale, in some replication of his old self, gave the Rays plenty of trouble.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The drug inhibits a viral enzyme used for replication of the pathogen.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
  • In this second, later phase, a drug that shuts down viral replication might no longer help.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2020
  • This version is a beautiful replication for home cooks and a favorite in my house.
    Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The first will be aimed at slowing down replication of the virus in patients early in the disease.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The products among these companies are not too unique for replication—the sell is what matters.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
  • Some people feel like the playlist economy is just a replication of radio.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The pills are designed to do that -- each by stopping different stages of its replication.
    Maggie Fox, CNN, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Typically, during the replication and spread of the virus, the child does not feel sick.
    Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • This enzyme needs to be heat resistant for the replication technique to work.
    James F. Holden, The Conversation, 21 July 2025
  • The new treatment is aimed at blocking the enzyme needed for replication.
    Helena Oliviero, ajc, 27 Feb. 2020
  • When the replication paper came out, Butte felt blindsided by the changes.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Stardom used to depend on scarcity; the future will run on replication.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • With a replication crisis plaguing social science, this was nice to see.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The union and the studios spent a lot of time working out details of the replication of background actors.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Two mutations are at a site the virus uses to pry its way into those cells and hijack them for its own replication.
    Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Maybe the ones the replication team didn’t have the materials to complete would have done better.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 7 Dec. 2021

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