How to Use self-replicating in a Sentence

self-replicating

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• This requires that less than one in a hundred billion stars ever produces self-replicating probes that just do their own thing.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2026
• That vision is one in which public institutions serve the public, not a self-replicating elite.
  — Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
• Technosignatures of self-replicating probes in the solar system.
  — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
• The company’s long-term vision includes robots building other robots using a self-replicating manufacturing approach.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2025
• From an engineering perspective, this process can be conceptualized as a self-replicating firmware update that spreads through a network of nodes; however, the network in this case is a population, and the firmware update is a genomic modification.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026