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as in to repeat
to make or do again I can't replicate your results when I do the experiment myself

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Recent Examples of replicate Mendoza warned that replicating Mamdani’s ideological platform could deepen polarization. Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025 Whether or not, Combs’ appeal replicates his string of unsuccessful $50 million bail efforts, or proves a Get Outta Jail card remains to be seen. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025 Now, with similar political support and streamlined oversight, Nashville may be poised to replicate that success with the controversial Music City Loop project. Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Nov. 2025 Even as large language models such as ChatGPT superficially replicate ordinary speech, researchers want to know if there are specific aspects of human language that simply have no parallels in the communication systems of other animals or artificially intelligent devices. Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for replicate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replicate
Verb
  • In an exchange reproduced on screen, a fan asked Stause about her rift with Hernan.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The nonstick surface that develops over years of use is invaluable, and not easy to reproduce.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The score consists of fifty-three melodic cells in and around the key of C; the performers are directed to move through these cells at their own pace, repeating them at will before moving on to the next.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Looking to repeat, the Gators own the best frontcourt in college basketball thanks to Thomas Haugh, Alex Condon, Rueben Chinyelu and Micah Handlogten returning.
    Scott Phillips, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Yet Fulton County officials have still insisted the ballots could not be copied or released.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Promoter sequences are short stretches of DNA that tell the cell’s copying machinery where a new protein starts.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • His original announcement on October 13 stated his contract was simply not being renewed, but this new report confirms the non-renewal has been escalated to an early termination.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Grossmont board declined to renew the contract of Christian Wallis, its previous chief executive, in March without providing a public reason for the dismissal.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • For centuries, the doctrine of coverture rendered married women the property of their husbands with no legal rights of their own.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This gray panel matches the collar and Wings logo, and the rest of the upper is rendered in white and off-white.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Dolphins won six of eight after that rough start last season, and the team hopes that turnaround can be duplicated.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The cameo feature, which allows your child’s likeness to be potentially duplicated in video form, and misused.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Art imitating life a little bit.
    Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That work led to the Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD), which could imitate human responses to simple audiovisual patterns like flashes and clicks.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025

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“Replicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replicate. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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