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Recent Examples of procreation
Fulfill a procreation contract with a handsome member of the ruling class or join a magnetically attractive outcast in a brewing rebellion.
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
SpaceX, however, has continued apace with its Mars projects, which, the Times reported last year, may now involve designing Martian homes and exploring the potential for procreation there.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Moreover, the study lays the groundwork for developing a practical method of preserving fertility during future, multi-year space missions, potentially paving the way for human procreation beyond Earth.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
But the procedure is opposed by some religious groups, many conservative Christians, who argue that life begins the moment an egg is fertilized and that humans should leave procreation to God, not science.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
Lizz Schumer, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
SpaceX, however, has continued apace with its Mars projects, which, the Times reported last year, may now involve designing Martian homes and exploring the potential for procreation there.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Moreover, the study lays the groundwork for developing a practical method of preserving fertility during future, multi-year space missions, potentially paving the way for human procreation beyond Earth.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
But the procedure is opposed by some religious groups, many conservative Christians, who argue that life begins the moment an egg is fertilized and that humans should leave procreation to God, not science.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for procreation
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Recovery efforts, like a captive breeding program at the Phoenix Zoo, have helped to bolster the Mount Graham red squirrel’s population, but conservationists fear that the species may be one wildfire away from eradication in the wild.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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This step, along with captive breeding programs, reintroduction efforts, law enforcement, and habitat protection, helped recover populations to nearly 10,000 nesting pairs.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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The quest has led us down many theoretically interesting avenues, spawning ideas like extra dimensions, supersymmetry, proton decay, string theory, and many others.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
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Complicating matters is several of the lethal alien creatures on board, including a xenomorph-spawning facehugger, escape from their confines and pick off the crew one by one until Morrow is the sole survivor.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Procreation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procreation. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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