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as in reproducing
to make an exact likeness of
replicated the famous painting in our art class
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as in repeating
to make or do again
I can't replicate your results when I do the experiment myself
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Recent Examples of replicating
Some experts believe the total number of assets tied up in passive funds could be 2x higher because many active fund managers have started replicating passive fund strategies.
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Mark Dent, HubSpot, 7 Nov. 2025
Fans got a glimpse of Jaafar in the role during the November 2025 teaser trailer, which showed the first footage of the young star replicating his uncle's iconic choreography.
—Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Even though del Toro shows the creature to be deadly with superhuman strength, Desplat had no interest in replicating creature violence with his music.
—Fred Topel, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Mendoza warned that replicating Mamdani’s ideological platform could deepen polarization.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
The Packers don’t have any other tight ends capable of replicating even close to the challenge Kraft poses for opposing defenses.
—Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
More importantly, this origin story of a movie and a movement apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Fission splits the nuclei of atoms to create power while fusion causes hydrogen nuclei to collide and fuse into helium atoms that release incredible amounts of energy — essentially replicating the power of the sun.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
The robot accurately reconstructed the folds’ geometry, replicating real tissue defects caused by lesion removal or partial reconstruction.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
Mark Dent, HubSpot, 7 Nov. 2025
Fans got a glimpse of Jaafar in the role during the November 2025 teaser trailer, which showed the first footage of the young star replicating his uncle's iconic choreography.
—Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Even though del Toro shows the creature to be deadly with superhuman strength, Desplat had no interest in replicating creature violence with his music.
—Fred Topel, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Mendoza warned that replicating Mamdani’s ideological platform could deepen polarization.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
The Packers don’t have any other tight ends capable of replicating even close to the challenge Kraft poses for opposing defenses.
—Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
More importantly, this origin story of a movie and a movement apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Fission splits the nuclei of atoms to create power while fusion causes hydrogen nuclei to collide and fuse into helium atoms that release incredible amounts of energy — essentially replicating the power of the sun.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
The robot accurately reconstructed the folds’ geometry, replicating real tissue defects caused by lesion removal or partial reconstruction.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replicating
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Also like the natural world, the Tyranids are patient, slowly devouring the edges of the galaxy and reproducing in unthinkable numbers in the darkness of space.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Women’s free labor in the home subsidized the profits of employers because workers’ families bore the cost of reproducing the future labor force.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Now, two decades later, the cycle appears to be repeating.—
Israel Melendez Ayala,
Time,
10 Nov. 2025
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This included repeating racist comments in 2019, insinuating a claim that Blacks are less intelligent than Whites due to genetics.—
Christina Zdanowicz,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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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
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Bobbitt said the issue may have been with incorrectly copying and pasting numbers.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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Lutnick has said the Administration is even considering taking ownership stakes in big defense contractors, such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, presumably as the price of renewing their lucrative federal contracts.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Not renewing subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act would disproportionately affect Republican states, particularly in the South, according to analysts.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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Tagliabue had insisted he be directly involved in all labor negotiations, basically rendering useless the Management Council of club executives that had handled such duties for nearly two decades.—
NPR,
NPR,
9 Nov. 2025
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George Miller spent 40 years building the Mad Max universe, but holds little fear for technology that can recreate a version of his dystopian dust bowl within seconds of rendering a text prompt.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Bidirectional edges connected the robots to each other, because each robot had to know what other robots were doing at each time step to avoid collisions or duplicating tasks.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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The remaining one-third involves SG&A costs, split between restructuring sales and marketing operations and duplicating corporate functions such as finance, HR, and legal.—
Joe Cornell,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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An investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said hackers accessed the system by imitating a legitimate user account.—
Charlotte Reck,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Life isn’t quite imitating art for Kim Kardashian.—
Jodi Guglielmi,
Rolling Stone,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Replicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replicating. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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