procreated

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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  • Nus Exotiques #10 (2025), a painting by Thomas that is reproduced in Karant’s lawsuit, visibly features a window from one of Karant’s photographs that Thomas turned on its side.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2026
  • This article originally appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft and was reproduced with permission.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 July 2026
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  • Mature clumps can be propagated by division in spring.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2026
  • But sometimes this connection is propagated within the community itself to make a salient point about a complex condition.
    Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
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  • Because total spend is price multiplied by volume, and only the price was falling.
    Emily Lewis-Pinnell, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • When multiplied by four in its standard configuration, the platform delivers a 588 pound-feet of pure pulling power.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
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  • The animal, fizzing with the inexhaustible energy of a creature bred for hauling chockablock toboggans, was confined to a tiny pen, a mere twenty feet square, behind the neighbor’s trailer.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • One of the wolves also showed unusually low genetic diversity, something often associated with small, isolated populations or animals that may have been selectively bred.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026

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“Procreated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procreated. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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