as in to reproduce
to bring forth offspring the common perception that our Puritan forebears procreated more out of a sense of duty than from desire

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Recent Examples of procreate More bluntly: what if my body made the choice of whether to procreate or not for me? Hazlitt, 5 Mar. 2025 Immigrants tend to be young people seeking better lives for themselves, and youth also procreate, adding babies — sometimes more than a half-million a year — to the state’s population. Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025 In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that male prisoners do not have a constitutional right to procreate by means of artificial insemination. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025 Here are a few pros and cons of making the decision not to procreate and raise a child. Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for procreate
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  • At the heart of the dispute was whether teams’ imagery can be used without consent to create unlicensed products when those products use historic artistic images, including those in the public domain, reproduced from vintage school memorabilia.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 1 July 2025
  • The moisture can create a perfect haven, if bacteria is present, to reproduce when the baked potato cools down while wrapped in foil and hits a temperature of 135 F to 41 F.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 27 June 2025
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  • The researchers simulated the way airport and military radar signals from New York’s JFK and London’s Heathrow and Gatwick propagate through space.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The easiest way to propagate blanket flowers is to encourage plants to self-sow in the garden.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 July 2025
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  • Pay an additional $1 to add the Power Play for a chance to multiply all Powerball winnings except for the jackpot.
    Chris Sims, IndyStar, 6 July 2025
  • These switchable cells, Young adds, are able to multiply themselves much more extensively than previous CAR T cells have in the past.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025

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“Procreate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procreate. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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