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 This is what is best: men, women, having a family, having babies, procreating. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 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 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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  • This is the company’s guiding philosophy and aims to reproduce audio just as the artist intended with lifelike realism, emotional depth and spatial precision.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This Imperial Beach restaurant plans to reproduce its business at Terminal 1.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • To develop a whole-virus vaccine, researchers must first spend months isolating and propagating the virus.
    Deborah Fuller, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Errors should propagate with clear context and actionable logging.
    Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 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, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike other bird species whose population sizes are regulated largely by natural forces — such as food availability, predators or constraints in their habitats — chickens are bred and multiplied by the billions by means of global agricultural industries.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025

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

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