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  • I …. it would be very hard for us to replicate that with someone else.†   (source)
  • Things have to make copies of themselves (this is called Replication).†   (source)
  • We won't know for sure, of course, until we extract whatever is in there, replicate it, and test it.†   (source)
  • What went on inside our apartment was replicated thousands of times in the ghetto as we struggled to keep our lives and our dignity in the face of random killings, devastating diseases, worn-out clothing, and near starvation.†   (source)
  • And when she said this, I saw myself transforming like a werewolf, a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered, replicating itself insidiously into a syndrome, a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors, all those things my mother did to embarrass me--haggling with store owners, pecking her mouth with a toothpick in public, being color-blind to the fact that lemon yellow and pale pink are not good combinations for winter clothes.†   (source)
  • With screams of pain, Ron, Hermione, and the two goblins were knocked aside into other objects, which also began to replicate.†   (source)
  • He learned he was doing this because Mr. Harvey had been reading about the Imezzureg tribe and had wanted to replicate their tents.†   (source)
  • They will be available to her from restaurants, brought up to the flat by servants, bearing a taste that after all these years she has still not quite managed, to her entire satisfaction, to replicate.†   (source)
  • If it is real, then we need to find out if we can replicate it.†   (source)
  • And replication is an essential part of science: a discovery isn't considered valid if others can't repeat the work and get the same result.†   (source)
  • In the bull's-eye mirror above Mrs. Barbour's head, I could see the whole scene replicated in freakish miniature: Chinese jars, coffee tray, awkward-looking social workers and all.†   (source)
  • Easy to replicate.†   (source)
  • I moved toward the horse beside her and tried to replicate her actions, but nothing happened.†   (source)
  • It glows, then dims, then glows again as though replicating the heartbeat of a sleeping animal.†   (source)
  • Experiments with laboratory animals in and around the tidal regions had resulted in sudden death for some animals, but the Merlin sickness had not been replicated.†   (source)
  • The white world had watched Michael Oher happen, or thought they had, and so could imagine how he might be replicated.†   (source)
  • Now, religion used to be essentially viral-a piece of information that replicated inside the human mind, jumping from one person to the next.†   (source)
  • The basic thinking behind fast food has become the operating system of today's retail economy, wiping out small businesses, obliterating regional differences, and spreading identical stores throughout the country like a self-replicating code.†   (source)
  • They taught us to do miniatures of the mural on paper to the proportion of the area we were working on, then how to square every section of the miniatures which we would replicate on the wall with a chalk line.†   (source)
  • But this is something even the most intelligent Erudite do not know; something that, if everything is destroyed, we cannot replicate.†   (source)
  • The novel tried to hit the raw nerve of racial self-contempt, expose it, then soothe it not with narcotics but with language that replicated the agency I discovered in my first experience of beauty.†   (source)
  • The pih project in Peru could be replicated, and some of what was needed were endorsements from "academics with clout" and the support of "the tb community."†   (source)
  • Eragon, please inform Trianna that I want Du Vrangr Gata to figure out how to replicate Galbatorix's spell.†   (source)
  • He'd created computer games before-Pong replicates, racing courses, and even one sci-fiscenario that let you play online with someone in another country if they logged onto the site-but this was the biggest idea he'd conceived of yet.†   (source)
  • I study the couples on the dance floor and try to replicate their moves as I get into the music.†   (source)
  • A life form had acquired Charles Monet as a host, and it was replicating.†   (source)
  • Like some of those who reached out to Luma for advice, I would sometimes press her to explain her philosophy, to attach words and maxims to the deeds in order to provide a framework for others who hoped to replicate the kind of program she'd created.†   (source)
  • Darley and Batson decided to replicate that study at the Princeton Theological Seminary.†   (source)
  • When other scholars have tried to replicate his results, they found that right-to-carry laws simply don't bring down crime.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was a hundred and ten, a hundred and twelve, and I looked out past the miscellaneous miles of squat box structures where you took your hearing aid to be fixed or shopped for pool supplies, the self-replicating stretch I traveled every day, and I told myself how much I liked this place with its downtown hush and its office towers separated by open space and its parks with jogging trails and its fairy ring of hills and its residential streets of oleanders and palms and tree…†   (source)
  • This doesn't mean that we should drop programs to send girls to school and instead settle for introducing cable television to villages full of wife beaters, for these findings are tentative and need to be replicated elsewhere.†   (source)
  • It has no replication value.†   (source)
  • The actions of the DEVGRU squadrons, targeting the networks of suicide bombers and IEDs in late 2007 and early 2008, nullified the Hollywood perception that tier one teams are reserved for the occasional high-level mission, training for weeks at a site built to replicate their target before embarking upon that mission.†   (source)
  • At NASA, she was in charge of replicating the space station in a 6.†   (source)
  • By dawn, he had replicated the six boys pushing a pole, raising a flag.†   (source)
  • Because they're Oreos and no matter what you do, you can't replicate them.†   (source)
  • To have this summer replicated for four years?†   (source)
  • Because it was extremely controversial and the results were immediately covered up, so no one would attempt to replicate them.†   (source)
  • There were to be beds in alcoves as in France, elongated windows and French doors, a magnificent parquet floor replicated from one he had seen in the country estate of a French friend, as well as ample space to display the paintings and busts, the gilded pier mirrors, clocks, and furniture he had shipped home from France.†   (source)
  • Now Annie, with no such excuse, felt herself propelled by pitiless genes to replicate the pattern with Grace.†   (source)
  • I do a perfect replication of her a bit left of center canvas, changing only two details: first, I make Liberty's torch float slightly beyond her grasp, and second, I paint her right hand reaching over to cover her left breast, as if she's reciting the National Anthem or some other slogan.†   (source)
  • The London Institute turned out to be protected by a force even we were unaware of, one we cannot replicate.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they can replicate its properties.†   (source)
  • As it was, the Kennedy-Johnson ticket won by the slender margin of 46,000 votes in Texas—a feat that must be replicated if Kennedy is to win a second term.†   (source)
  • Now imagine trying to replicate a duck's sound by ear—without a duck's bill!†   (source)
  • And when they do, Phil blows his calls, with Jase calling along beside him, helping to replicate the exact sound of the ducks for the decoys in the spread.†   (source)
  • "Hey, Tyler," Wathaet said, the collar transmitter faithfully replicating his slur.†   (source)
  • Bedspread, pillowcases, the lamp on the nightstand—they were all mine and they had been placed here with strategy and care, replicating a time before I was sick, before my illness changed the way I lived, before it changed the way we all lived.†   (source)
  • Besides, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by the son of a king?†   (source)
  • This night's profusion of post horns, this malignant, deliberate replication, was their way of beating up.†   (source)
  • Naturally, they will spread the me, acting as hosts for this self-replicating piece of information.†   (source)
  • I've seen my mother tie a tourniquet a handful of times and try to replicate it.†   (source)
  • "But some people would ask, 'How can you expect others to replicate what you're doing here?'†   (source)
  • Of course, there was no way they could hope to replicate 13, which was the work of centuries.†   (source)
  • How wily is she to have discovered this path into the food and to be able to replicate it so neatly?†   (source)
  • Within a few months, though, replicating Zanmi Lasante had become his main preoccupation.†   (source)
  • The sound of the jabberjays replicating Prim's tortured screams.†   (source)
  • He said that what Paul had done in Cange had to be "replicated."†   (source)
  • Could Old Magic be replicated in a test tube?†   (source)
  • But no one ever replicates those prescribed lengths perfectly.†   (source)
  • And what that means is that I can never replicate that trip.†   (source)
  • The organism would be self-replicating, cheap, and could be produced in fantastic numbers.†   (source)
  • It was not an experience he was eager to replicate.†   (source)
  • With the same rapid replication, the same ability to spread through the air.†   (source)
  • After all, it's not like we were trying to replicate Daffy Duck—thuffirin' thuccotash!†   (source)
  • They survive and replicate on your blood.†   (source)
  • Details are the hardest thing to replicate.†   (source)
  • You see, many have tried to replicate— The smuggler cut him off with a pointed question.†   (source)
  • If anything lived in Peter Cardinal's blood, it might begin to replicate in the monkey cells.†   (source)
  • Why can't we just replicate modem technologies?" asked Max.†   (source)
  • But I don't think we're going to be able to replicate Glatun tech any time soon.†   (source)
  • The stuff could be worse than plutonium because it could replicate.†   (source)
  • So you can even replicate a creature's aura?" asked Max.†   (source)
  • Now she wore one layer of protection between herself and the replicative Other.†   (source)
  • "We won't be able to replicate this system in the next fifty years.†   (source)
  • Problem is, we're having an impossible time replicating their secondary particle converters.†   (source)
  • They replicate: you flee them, turn a corner, and there they are, coming for you again.†   (source)
  • Inside is the first beautiful thing I've seen in the District 13 compound: a replication of a meadow, filled with real trees and flowering plants, and alive with hummingbirds.†   (source)
  • My bird has been replicated on belt buckles, embroidered into silk lapels, even tattooed in intimate places.†   (source)
  • Now, as I trudge through the snow, I see the mockingjays hopping about on branches as they pick up on other birds' melodies, replicate them, and then transform them into something new.†   (source)
  • Hardly aware of the pain from the burns covering his body, and still borne along the swell of replicating treasure, Harry shoved the cup into his pocket and reached up to retrieve the sword, but Griphook was gone.†   (source)
  • It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate.†   (source)
  • No one had ever been able to replicate Carrel's work, and the cells seemed to defy a basic rule of biology: that normal cells can only divide a finite number of times before dying.†   (source)
  • In the long run, the type of financing used to grow a company proved less crucial than other aspects of the McDonald's business model: the emphasis on simplicity and uniformity, the ability to replicate the same retail environment at many locations.†   (source)
  • "And if we can't replicate it?"†   (source)
  • These findings were replicated in every other state where studies about race and the death penalty took place.†   (source)
  • Feedlots have become an extremely efficient mechanism for "recirculating the manure," which is unfortunate, since E. coli 0157:H7 can replicate in cattle troughs and survive in manure for up to ninety days.†   (source)
  • But more than anything, they worried that since everyone was using different media ingredients, recipes, cells, and techniques, and few knew their peers' methods, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to replicate one another's experiments.†   (source)
  • As I go along, carefully resetting each snare, I know I can never quite replicate his eye for balance, his instinct for where the prey will cross the path.†   (source)
  • The gum was magically replicated.†   (source)
  • She was injecting Shadowhunter blood and demon blood into the mothers, trying to replicate what Valentine did to his son.†   (source)
  • At first glance, it would seem that Doris's home and hers were similar—they were built in the same era—but she'd never been able to replicate the aromas.†   (source)
  • All you need do is concentrate upon the image that you wish to capture and then say, 'Let that which I see in my mind's eye be replicated on the surface of this tablet.'†   (source)
  • Not very Isabelle, Clary thought, but then it would have been hard to replicate Isabelle's powder-and-glitter-strewn room in New York on short notice.†   (source)
  • He would just be getting into the juicy details of cell replication when his sister would pick up the phone and sever the connection.†   (source)
  • I'd practiced the art in reverse multiple times in pencil and pen, until I felt sure that I could replicate it with my tattoo gun as I worked in the mirror.†   (source)
  • They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again.†   (source)
  • And the post-Roe cohort was not only missing thousands of young male criminals but also thousands of single, teenage mothers—for many of the aborted baby girls would have been the children most likely to replicate their own mothers' tendencies.†   (source)
  • Fredi's first full-time teaching job was at Carl Hayden, where he replicated Justus's Science Seminar.†   (source)
  • When you're blowing on an Original Commander Call to attract a mallard hen, you can quicken and sharpen the cadence to replicate a young mallard hen, or slow down and draw out the cadence to get an old, raspy mallard hen.†   (source)
  • It switches on and begins to replicate.†   (source)
  • Viruses fall apart under ultraviolet light, which smashes their genetic material and makes them unable to replicate.†   (source)
  • The prime directive is to replicate.†   (source)
  • The time of year being autumn, the spider had left egg cases in its web, preparing for its own cycle of replication.†   (source)
  • He lay awake, thinking about the needle jabbing into his thumb, thinking about Ebola starting its inevitable replication in his bloodstream.†   (source)
  • She was a member of a religious order that prohibited autopsies, but the doctors very much wanted to know what was replicating inside her.†   (source)
  • No one knew what had killed the nun, but clearly it was a replicating agent, and the signs and symptoms of the disease were not easy to consider with a calm mind.†   (source)
  • It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan, and the United States, thick with replicating primates, the colonies enlarging and spreading and threatening to shock the biosphere with mass extinctions.†   (source)
  • Moreover, props and costumes were impossible to replicate.†   (source)
  • —what replication should be made by the son of a king?†   (source)
  • Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of explication; facere, as it were, replication, or rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his inclination,—after his undressed, unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather, unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion,—to insert again my haud credo for a deer.†   (source)
  • My will is this, for plain conclusion Withouten any replication*, *reply If that you liketh, take it for the best, That evereach of you shall go where *him lest*, *he pleases Freely without ransom or danger; And this day fifty weekes, *farre ne nerre*, *neither more nor less* Evereach of you shall bring an hundred knights, Armed for listes up at alle rights All ready to darraine* her by bataille, *contend for And this behete* I you withoute fail *promise Upon my troth, and as I am a…†   (source)
  • And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout That Tiber trembled underneath her banks To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores?†   (source)
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