How to Use replication in a Sentence

replication

noun
  • But the spirit of all that is very alive in it more so than the replication of it.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 5 July 2024
  • The reverse may be true, too, and the replication is wrong.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • With two, the hope is to trap and shut down viral replication.
    Shelby Lin Erdman, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
  • In the middle of all the replication, there was an oasis.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The virus’s rapid spread may in part result from a fast replication rate.
    Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 30 July 2021
  • Hunter was keen to come up with a replication of this finding.
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • Yet in some cases, the virus takes off by rapid replication in host cells.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The space, in fact, looks ready for easy replication, which is probably the point.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In many cases, the shell has more space than the phage needs to store the DNA essential for its replication.
    Ivan Erill, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Sale, in some replication of his old self, gave the Rays plenty of trouble.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The first will be aimed at slowing down replication of the virus in patients early in the disease.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The drug inhibits a viral enzyme used for replication of the pathogen.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The union and the studios spent a lot of time working out details of the replication of background actors.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This brings us to the role of telomere caps which provide a margin of error in the DNA replication process, and the longer the telomeres the better.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2022
  • There’s also a spot-on replication of the old black-and-white movies, with just the smallest hint of Renfield’s wheezing laugh.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Viruses can make thousands of copies in one round of replication.
    Maya Chung, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • When the replication paper came out, Butte felt blindsided by the changes.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • When the virus tries to replicate, its enzymes incorporate the drug into the new genome, and the replication fails.
    Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The drugs target a different part of the virus replication process than Merck’s medicine.
    Kanoko Matsuyama, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Maybe the ones the replication team didn’t have the materials to complete would have done better.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The process is a slower-evolving one—not because the virus doesn’t change but because the replication cycles can be quite long.
    Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The ceiling was four stories high with plenty of room to display a full-sized dinosaur replication made of resin and sprayed in chrome.
    Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The pills are designed to do that -- each by stopping different stages of its replication.
    Maggie Fox, CNN, 6 Nov. 2021
  • So lambda turns on its replication genes, makes copies of itself and bursts out of the cell to look for more undamaged cells to infect.
    Ivan Erill-University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • In this second, later phase, a drug that shuts down viral replication might no longer help.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2020
  • By slowing replication of the virus, interferons buy time for the rest of the immune system.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This version is a beautiful replication for home cooks and a favorite in my house.
    Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2020
  • In a previous study, the same group of researchers found that the N protein was critical to the virus replication of the Alpha variant.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The new treatment is aimed at blocking the enzyme needed for replication.
    Helena Oliviero, ajc, 27 Feb. 2020
  • But the real difference between today’s digital twins and other attempts at replication is the ability to connect the digital twin to the physical twin.
    John Clemons, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

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