How to Use replication in a Sentence

replication

noun
  • The reverse may be true, too, and the replication is wrong.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • In the middle of all the replication, there was an oasis.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The space, in fact, looks ready for easy replication, which is probably the point.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In many cases, the shell has more space than the phage needs to store the DNA essential for its replication.
    Ivan Erill, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The union and the studios spent a lot of time working out details of the replication of background actors.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This brings us to the role of telomere caps which provide a margin of error in the DNA replication process, and the longer the telomeres the better.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2022
  • There’s also a spot-on replication of the old black-and-white movies, with just the smallest hint of Renfield’s wheezing laugh.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Viruses can make thousands of copies in one round of replication.
    Maya Chung, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • When the replication paper came out, Butte felt blindsided by the changes.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The drugs target a different part of the virus replication process than Merck’s medicine.
    Kanoko Matsuyama, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Maybe the ones the replication team didn’t have the materials to complete would have done better.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The process is a slower-evolving one—not because the virus doesn’t change but because the replication cycles can be quite long.
    Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The ceiling was four stories high with plenty of room to display a full-sized dinosaur replication made of resin and sprayed in chrome.
    Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The pills are designed to do that -- each by stopping different stages of its replication.
    Maggie Fox, CNN, 6 Nov. 2021
  • So lambda turns on its replication genes, makes copies of itself and bursts out of the cell to look for more undamaged cells to infect.
    Ivan Erill-University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • In a previous study, the same group of researchers found that the N protein was critical to the virus replication of the Alpha variant.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Two mutations are at a site the virus uses to pry its way into those cells and hijack them for its own replication.
    Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Paxlovid is a protease inhibitor – the same type of drug that turned HIV into a manageable disease – which blocks replication of the virus.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
  • During replication, the virus uses the fake version instead, and boom!
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Musical change seems to follow certain rules, in the same vein as DNA replication.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Paxlovid, known by its brand name, stops the virus by blocking an enzyme—called protease—involved in replication.
    Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022
  • There were studies that showed that at high doses, ivermectin stops viral replication, but those levels cannot be achieved in the blood.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Molnupiravir tries to drive a random cascade of errors in the replication process, aiming to stunt its spread.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Protease are key to viral growth, and inhibitors block the virus’ ability to set up replication factory in the body.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Speaking of replication, the obvious question for Klein is who will take over for Doppelt come March?
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But there has been some value to that, too—replication and repetition.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The replication of these records across the network is part of what prevents an incorrect or fake transaction from being logged.
    CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • On its own, this sort of replication is useful but not very interesting.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The replication and move are factors that preservationists say may diminish the historic value of the site.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The drugs, called protease inhibitors, block the replication of the AIDS-causing virus by chemically binding a key enzyme.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022

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