replicates

present tense third-person singular of replicate
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as in repeats
to make or do again I can't replicate your results when I do the experiment myself

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Recent Examples of replicates The poster starts by making some chirping noises, which the cat replicates. Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 The fractured narrative replicates the characters’ fractured perspectives. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025 At its core, DeFi replicates traditional financial services without banks or intermediaries. Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 And in 2024, a team of scientists at Stanford University examined how the COVID-19 virus replicates inside human cells. Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025 According to this view, if an AI system mimics to a certain degree the computations that give rise to consciousness in the human brain — and so replicates how the brain processes information — that would be one clue that the system might be conscious. Mariana Lenharo & Nature Magazine, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replicates
Verb
  • And in June, Erdős and Volodymyr Riabov posted a paper that reproduces Yau and Yin’s one-dimensional result for a broader class of band matrices.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Dynamic magnetism model offers insights beyond plutonium By incorporating temperature-dependent magnetic states, the model accurately reproduces the unusual experimental observation that delta-plutonium contracts at high temperatures.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Elinor soon repeats the information to Colonel Brandon.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • After that first action, the process repeats, always recalibrating based on the latest available data.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As Office alumni branched out, copies begat copies.
    Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Typically said when someone copies a trend, latches onto a friend's obsession, or just teases in a playful way.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The fall release slate comes as Pushkin also renews its podcast ad sales and distribution pact with iHeartMedia.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Regeneration renews ecosystems after disruption.
    Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The current system of revisions renders an important set of numbers impossible to use.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To put it mildly, Longo is disheartened by the political climate, by the bullying and attacks on democracy, by war, by the language that renders America as a sports team.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Camille Cottin reprises her role as Andréa, the force-of-nature agent from the series who in the film is an aspiring director.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Meryl Streep as Loretta Durkin Streep reprises her role as Loretta, an actor and now-wife of Oliver.
    Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the second episode, which premiered on August 6, Cartman imitates Kirk with a podcast and debates college students.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes art imitates life by skipping a generation.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025

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