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
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.
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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
Governments have responded with pleas and incentives to encourage families to procreate.
—Angela Saini, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024
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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
Governments have responded with pleas and incentives to encourage families to procreate.
—Angela Saini, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for procreate
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As natural landscapes are converted to agriculture or taken over by urban sprawl, logging operations and oil and gas exploration, ecosystems become fragmented and the space that species need to survive and reproduce disappears.—
Karrigan Börk,
The Conversation,
13 May 2025
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This material is not to be reproduced or redistributed absent the written consent of Fairlead Strategies.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
12 May 2025
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The farm also has an indoor research and development nursery where the team is propagating Torrwood’s own proprietary genetics.—
Colette Coleman,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Musk chose to propagate these falsehoods on his influential social media platform, X, which had already become notorious among Democrats and others of the political center and left for amplifying disinformation from right-wing extremists.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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During that period, ASU’s research expenditures multiplied nearly fivefold, earning membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU) in 2023.—
Bryan Penprase,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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These approaches rely on mathematical functions like squaring, adding, or multiplying, rather than irrational numbers, radicals, or functions like sine and cosine.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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“Procreate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procreate. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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