replicate
adjective
Also replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
had replicated
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past perfectof replicate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Thanks to the barcoded viruses, they could identify in which tissues the virus had replicated the fastest and spread the furthest just seven days after treatment was stopped.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
Indeed, by 1963, police forces across the country had replicated the Baltimore K-9 unit, with teams popping up everywhere from Minneapolis to Pittsburgh, Honolulu, and Topeka, Kansas.
From Slate ● May 16, 2023
The scientists did find fragments of HIV, indicating that she had previously been infected and that the virus had replicated, they wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Since Munch’s death in 1944 the image had replicated countless time in pop culture, on T-shirts, an as inflatable and latterly as an emoji.
From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2021
Holding on to wrought-iron balustrades, guests would then ascend thirty stairs that curved upward to the first- floor landing, whose sky-blue ceiling that Daddy had replicated at our house was like the heavens.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
