Thesaurus results for PROCREATING

procreating

verb

present participle of procreate

as in reproducing

to bring forth offspring the common perception that our Puritan forebears procreated more out of a sense of duty than from desire

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Recent Examples of procreating Van Winkle’s sign said that bombing for peace was the equivalent of procreating for virginity. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 3 Mar. 2026 Many took issue with the underlying assumption that the people who ought to be procreating are heterosexual, married couples and that conception is usually possible without the help of IVF. — Emma Kennedy, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025 Larkin, a proto-punk, poked fun at the way humans, just by procreating, pass their worst traits to their children and beyond, through infinity. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Nov. 2025

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Turning chemical signals into digital instructions Recreating smell presents a different challenge from reproducing images or sound.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
The likelier explanation, Seth said, is that the models have absorbed a great deal of information about how humans describe and respond to pain and are reproducing it.

— Shae Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of reproducing

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The transform works by summing a bunch of signals and multiplying each by a special exponential factor.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
Certificate lifespans are shrinking, machine identities are multiplying across cloud and AI systems and expectations around cryptographic governance are increasing.

— Amit Sinha, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of multiplying

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But with people in charge, these animals will also likely be excluded from breeding and have less of a chance of passing their genes on.

— Alida de Flamingh, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
The buck, tongue lolling, looked exhausted from chasing and breeding his doe.

— Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of breeding

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