replication
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Synonyms & Antonyms for replication
Synonyms
carbon, carbon copy, clone, copy, dummy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, imitation, mock, reduplication, replica, reproduction
Antonyms
archetype, original, prototype
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The lab just started searching for patients to participate in their replication trial a little over two months ago. — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, "UTD lab's marketing challenge: Recruit veterans for PTSD study," 15 Aug. 2019 By now, the Kivu Ebola swarm has been going through its eighteen-hour replication cycle in humans for more than a year. — Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "Is Ebola Evolving Into a More Deadly Virus?," 7 Aug. 2019 Furthermore, the researchers showed that a protein required for viral replication was present in cells that did not have the genome segment coding for it. — Quanta Magazine, "Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble," 21 May 2019 In addition, experimental antiviral drugs that can stop Ebola replication in its tracks are under development. — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, "What is the Ebola virus, and can it be stopped?," 9 Apr. 2019 Doctors were accustomed to tissue samples dying off quickly once removed from their hosts, and were shocked at the unflagging replication rate of the cells from Lacks’s cervix. — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, "Famed for “Immortal” Cells, Henrietta Lacks is Immortalized in Portraiture," 15 May 2018 This commitment to feature replication extends to the wheels as well. — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, "Brompton Electric bike review: remarkably practical," 2 July 2019 The renowned Diamond Project Band is dedicated to performing a true replication of the musical styling of a live Neil Diamond concert. — Sam Boyer, cleveland.com, "There’s nothing quite like parenting a 3-year-old: Whit & Whimsey," 25 July 2019 Our proposal is to look at reconstructing the roof portion — which had burned in a formally precise replication of the dimensions and shapes, the forms that were there previously — but to do it with glass. — Amy Gunia / Hong Kong, Time, "12 Questions for Tim Kobe, the Apple Store Designer Who Wants to Rebuild Notre Dame With Glass," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'replication.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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