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procreated

verb

past tense of procreate

as in reproduced

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 procreated All of the above borrow from long-standing rumors that Hitler procreated, but all are united in their ultimate condemnation of the führer. — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026 With lilting cadences, the king shares the origin myth of his Nkangala people, that a small elephant shed its skin while bathing in the river and a woman emerged, who married and procreated with his ancestors. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025

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While the details were wrong, de Aguiar Alves was impressed that the episode reproduced the core textbook idea mostly accurately.

— Matt von Hippel, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026
Our model not only reproduced how bacteria behaved under different nutrient environments, but also revealed where their memory likely resides.

— Shiladitya Banerjee, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

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These baby strawberry plants can be propagated to fill in empty spots in your garden beds or used to replace older strawberry plants that have become less productive over time.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2026
The group is best known for a sustained series of supply-chain attacks that laced open source software with malware that self-propagated from one package to another.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026

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