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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  • The disease is considered a highly invasive tumor in the central nervous system because its cells reproduce extremely quickly.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 23 July 2025
  • With wild pigs reproducing rapidly and damaging both crops and ecosystems, researchers say more action is needed at the policy level.
    Vanessa Countryman, USA Today, 22 July 2025
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  • Banana plants propagate vegetatively by offsets that grow up from their base with masses of leaves.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 25 July 2025
  • Google's Veo 3 videos have propagated across the Internet since the model's debut in May, blurring the line between truth and fiction.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2025
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  • Rather than multiplying the existing pixels on screen, Google’s generative AI tools created new pixels to increase the definition and scale of the film.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
  • The online posts began to multiply soon after Signal 99, an anonymous Facebook page with an emphasis on law and order in Cincinnati, shared one of the videos early Saturday morning with a caption mocking Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval.
    Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025

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“Procreate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procreate. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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