procreating

present participle of procreate
as in reproducing
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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Verb
  • The costs of reproducing living labor varied in response to struggle.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Without people in the loop, AI risks reproducing the inherent problems that it is meant to avoid, including discrimination, institutional incompetence and overall distrust.
    Gangesh Pathak, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The idea of waves propagating through a barrier has been around for a long time, since before the existence of quantum mechanics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Such a blatant falsehood making it to the press conference betrays the fact that there is no limit to how false something has to be in order for this administration to resist propagating it.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • Budgets are swelling, pilots are multiplying and the hype machine rolls on.
    Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Across the fashion industry, circular strategies are multiplying — global SPAs are strengthening garment collection schemes, while European luxury houses are elevating biodiversity as a strategic pillar.
    Chizuru Muko, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • That's brought employees from many different cultures together, rather than breeding a unified corporate mindset from its founding.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Prior to being rescued, Neve was used for breeding.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Procreating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procreating. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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