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replicate

[rep-li-kit, rep-li-kayt] / ˈrɛp lɪ kɪt, ˈrɛp lɪˌkeɪt /


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Yet industry veterans say surviving facilities with expansive live rooms, vintage gear and decades of recording history may be becoming more valuable as they become harder to replicate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Though leaders from more than 200 companies have visited Gund, few have managed to replicate the 12-step blueprint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

"If the cell is not healthy, the virus would not replicate well," Yang said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

It was a lucrative model, one that other leading championships in motorsport, rugby, golf and cricket would later seek to replicate.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

If the Torricellian barometer had not been easy to replicate, it would never have become the first famous experiment.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Several figures at the club still regard him as the profile the squad is missing now, a controlling midfielder capable of dictating tempo in a way nobody currently on the books quite replicates.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The Bundibugyo Ebola strain spreading in East Africa replicates slowly, allowing infected people to travel and spread the virus further.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

At just 6mph, it replicates the kind of annoying prang you might well get in a car park or at a traffic light.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Coffin replicates Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 “The Great Train Robbery,” often considered one of the first films that used editing for storytelling — and one of the first action movies ever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Fixers were designed to replicate under strictly regulated conditions, but the damaged Fixer replicates uncontrollably, at an exponential rate, using whatever materials are at hand.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Gynaecologists told the meeting that the acute challenges in Cardiff "could easily be replicated by other centres in Wales".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

He’s replicated its approach ever since and never looked back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

But it’s a far better analogy for how viewers rallied behind the show, making Hansen and his questionable methods a sensation that could be replicated after their mutual cancellation.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Grinberg acknowledged that products built by one startup one day can likely be replicated by a competitor the next day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

No one, as far as we know, replicated his experiments.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

One of autonomous flight's biggest challenges is replicating a pilot's ability to spot and maneuver safely around other aircraft and obstacles, and there is virtually no margin for error.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Europe was going to have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars replicating systems America traditionally supplied.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

By replicating the action of this hormone, GLP-1 drugs have proven highly effective at managing type 2 diabetes and promoting weight loss.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

He has issued numerous written statements on policy matters but is far from replicating the one-man rule of his father.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

It then begins dividing, replicating itself into a new colony of identical cells, all labeled with the same receptor, primed with the same question.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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