The phrase "a desire to replicate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing a wish or intention to reproduce something, whether it's an idea, process, or outcome.
Example: "The scientist had a desire to replicate the experiment to verify the results."
Alternatives: "an urge to duplicate" or "a wish to reproduce".
This search for the right voices to inspire her stemmed partly from a desire to replicate the Aboriginal storytelling tradition.
When they began contemplating the idea of a second home a few years ago, they weren't caught up in memories of childhood summers and a desire to replicate them.
Echoing other journalists, like Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, Mr. Bai notes that the new progressive movement sprang, in part, from a desire to replicate the successes of the G.O.P. in building up a formidable infrastructure, including think tanks (like the Hoover Institution) to generate ideas, media outlets (like Fox News) to amplify the message, and a dynamic fund-raising apparatus.
As he described his new "membrane computing" idea, and terms like "Boolean satisfiability" flew fast and furious, the biologists in the room lost interest until he expressed a desire to replicate his model using actual cells.
He believes that governments and investors have an "extensive" bias when it comes to science and technology, a desire to replicate or "extend" what has already been shown to work.
If there is a desire to replicate RCT results, then secondary analyses that systematically examine the impact of various inclusion and exclusion criteria can serve that purpose and additionally may yield unique and useful information.
"What makes [Silicon] Valley work?" -- a question people around the world have pondered in their desire to replicate its success -- is a matter of "organizational ecology," Lenoir said.
Filled with outdated references of what adults did, and the desperate desire to replicate it, me and a friend braved snow in the pursuit of a "good night".
Mr. Williams's group, Erimaj — which includes the singer Chris Turner — starts from a more fractured and funk-oriented place: in it you can clearly hear the desire to replicate, in real time and through improvisation, a producer's sampled repetitions, a D.J.'s abrupt crossfades and the wounded or ecstatic falsettos of gospel and R&B.
Mr Horvath was a rowing team captain at Harvard University and says Strava was born out of his desire to replicate the feeling of being part of a sport-themed community.
The desire to replicate the magic of old movies was a little too recycled at times – the fur stole over the shoulder of models in flapper dresses felt more Poirot heroine than Louise Brooks, while the music straight out of an MGM classic for the finale really rammed the point home.
