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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 But Brady will have seen how Muhammad managed to overpower Edwards last time out and will be keen to replicate that approach to pick up the biggest win of his career to date. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025 Goldberg says that actually picking up objects or performing other manual tasks that humans find to be completely straightforward are much harder to replicate in a computer. Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025 The Knicks wanted to replicate the success Minnesota’s league-best defense found pairing Towns with a true defensive anchor in Rudy Gobert, a four-time Defensive Player of the Year. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025 Focus On Replicating Human Problem-Solving Methods ​To combat AI bias, companies should focus on training AI systems to understand and replicate human problem-solving methods. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for replicate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replicate
Verb
  • The results clearly reproduced a similar pattern to earlier research.
    Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This phenomenon, called multilevel selection, is an extension of natural selection: the process by which organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
    Conner Philson, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Much like George repeating his intern year, this season was kind of spinning its wheels.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
  • No team has repeated as World Series champions since the Yankees did it three years in a row, from 1998-2000.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Not to be redistributed, copied, or modified in any way.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Ultimately, this trickles down to the rest of the business community as tech startups and other entrepreneurs watch, copy and develop cheaper and more efficient systems to market.
    Gene Marks, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Rick Pitino-John Calipari rivalry is renewed with the Johnnies and Razorbacks’ second-round meeting.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Trump has renewed his pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to help ease the pain of tariffs as more Americans become worried again about their financial situation.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • There is no reason to say that the current challenges render AI’s implementation impossible.
    William Tarr, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • That renders every emotional moment (what made the original Lion King so terrific) utterly lifeless.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Some moon images had to be duplicated and adjusted slightly to maintain the natural progression.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 25 Mar. 2025
  • But Snow White also had commercial appeal in a way that seemed to flummox Disney, and that took him a while to figure out how to duplicate.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • It’s been imitated to death by lesser films in the years that followed, but this first appearance still has a disarming spark.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • With over 100,000 followers on Instagram, her inspiring style has been often imitated, but never replicated.
    Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2025

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“Replicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replicate. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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