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as in reproduces
to make an exact likeness of
replicated the famous painting in our art class
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as in repeats
to make or do again
I can't replicate your results when I do the experiment myself
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Recent Examples of replicates
At its core, DeFi replicates traditional financial services without banks or intermediaries.
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Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
And in 2024, a team of scientists at Stanford University examined how the COVID-19 virus replicates inside human cells.
—Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
According to this view, if an AI system mimics to a certain degree the computations that give rise to consciousness in the human brain — and so replicates how the brain processes information — that would be one clue that the system might be conscious.
—Mariana Lenharo & Nature Magazine, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
And in 2024, a team of scientists at Stanford University examined how the COVID-19 virus replicates inside human cells.
—Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
According to this view, if an AI system mimics to a certain degree the computations that give rise to consciousness in the human brain — and so replicates how the brain processes information — that would be one clue that the system might be conscious.
—Mariana Lenharo & Nature Magazine, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replicates
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And in June, Erdős and Volodymyr Riabov posted a paper that reproduces Yau and Yin’s one-dimensional result for a broader class of band matrices.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Aug. 2025
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Dynamic magnetism model offers insights beyond plutonium By incorporating temperature-dependent magnetic states, the model accurately reproduces the unusual experimental observation that delta-plutonium contracts at high temperatures.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Aug. 2025
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Without pausing, the robo-dog repeats the same acrobatics twice more.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
3 Sep. 2025
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This story repeats itself more often than most design teams expect.—
Goran Paun,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Blakespear’s bill renews a tax exclusion that prevents the cost of solar panels and storage from being added to a building’s value when it’s assessed for property taxes through 2031.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
18 Aug. 2025
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One is playwright and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, who renews this classic through her frank and dynamic voice, with incendiary results.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Aug. 2025
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The system processed over 100,000 video clips from both real-world recordings and the aforementioned Unreal Engine renders.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 Sep. 2025
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The process requires hundreds of delicate manual steps, and any contamination renders a dose unusable.—
Jennifer Kite-Powell,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Joining him, Sabrina Impacciatore plays Esmerelda, his managing editor and The Office veteran Oscar Nuñez reprises his role as accountant Oscar Martinez.—
Colleen Kratofil,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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There’s something comforting about returning to the familiar rhythms of the last sitcom everyone seemed to be watching at the same time, even if only one member of the original cast, Oscar Nuñez, reprises his role.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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Sometimes art imitates life by skipping a generation.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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His rhetoric occasionally imitates Trump when talking about China and the World Trade Organization.—
Taylor Millard,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Replicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replicates. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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