Sample sentences for REPLICATE

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Definition

reproduce a copy; or do again in the same way

We determined that the technique isn't easily replicated because it depends upon outstanding teachers.

The experiment was successfully replicated in two other labs.
Today I learned how DNA replicates itself during cell division.
The white world had watched Michael Oher happen, or thought they had, and so could imagine how he might be replicated.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
She was injecting Shadowhunter blood and demon blood into the mothers, trying to replicate what Valentine did to his son.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
Because it was extremely controversial and the results were immediately covered up, so no one would attempt to replicate them.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
The organism would be self-replicating, cheap, and could be produced in fantastic numbers.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
But this is something even the most intelligent Erudite do not know; something that, if everything is destroyed, we cannot replicate.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
I moved toward the horse beside her and tried to replicate her actions, but nothing happened.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
Things have to make copies of themselves (this is called Replication).
Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

With screams of pain, Ron, Hermione, and the two goblins were knocked aside into other objects, which also began to replicate.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Besides, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by the son of a king?
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

When other scholars have tried to replicate his results, they found that right-to-carry laws simply don't bring down crime.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
I study the couples on the dance floor and try to replicate their moves as I get into the music.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
—what replication should be made by the son of a king?
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

This night's profusion of post horns, this malignant, deliberate replication, was their way of beating up.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49

By dawn, he had replicated the six boys pushing a pole, raising a flag.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
If it is real, then we need to find out if we can replicate it.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
Darley and Batson decided to replicate that study at the Princeton Theological Seminary.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
It has no replication value.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day

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