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- He told me that as Commanding General [General David Petraeus] he believes he should not only direct battlefield action but also disseminate a few easy-to-grasp concepts about the war's prosecution, which subordinate officers can then interpret on their own. —Steve Coll, New Yorker, 8 Sept. 2008
- Jefferson helped found and back a friendly newspaper, the National Gazette, to help disseminate his views. —Walter Kim, Time, 5 July 2004
- In this case, the filmmakers did not prevent information from being disseminated. And they have no greater moral obligation than do the highly paid Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather to help a TV network keep down its costs. —Randy Cohen, New York Times Magazine, 7 Oct. 2001
- Although possession of virus software and source code is not illegal, many of the existing state and federal computer intrusion and unauthorized access laws already make it illegal to introduce a virus into someone's system intentionally. Robert Morris's conviction … shows how the existing laws might be used to punish those involved with disseminating viruses. —Edward A. Cavazos et al., Cyberspace And The Law, 1994
The Internet allows us to disseminate information faster.
The findings were widely disseminated.
Recent Examples of disseminate from the Web
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Public health efforts inevitably involve trade-offs, but interventions that are broadly disseminated must have minimal harms.
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Diaz-Canel has told party leaders that government agencies need to use technology to disseminate information – and tenets of the Communist revolution -- to a younger generation on the island that increasingly turns to social media.
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An additional message by Jaelynn's family was disseminated on Facebook, The Baltimore Sun reports.
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The law also requires unlicensed clinics -- those that provide resources such as vitamins and diapers but have no medical providers on site -- to disseminate a notice that they are not licensed by the state.
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For this reason, the companies should continue to develop better algorithmic detection systems to discover attempts to mislead prospective voters and act against them before or soon after they are disseminated.
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Leaders like marine biologist and author Carson faced yet another form of trial by fire: going against big corporations to disseminate urgent, valuable research to an unknowing public.
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Its second job is to disseminate existing research.
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Google has been criticized for false news reports appearing in its search results and on YouTube, as well as for letting sites that disseminate fake news use its advertising services.
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Disseminating Information on disseminate
While the object of the verb disseminate may be something tangible, such as an infectious agent, nowadays the thing most often disseminated, or "spread abroad as though sowing seed," is information. Where does this metaphorical verb come from? In Latin, the dis- prefix signifies separation or dispersal, while the -sem- element springs from semen "seed." The same Latin noun is found in a number of other English words with figurative meanings: seminary (which now is a training facility for priests, but initially was a place where seeds were raised to plants), seminal (meaning "containing the seeds of later development"), and yes, the word semen.
Origin and Etymology of disseminate
Latin disseminatus, past participle of disseminare, from dis- + seminare to sow, from semin-, semen seed — more at semen
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DISSEMINATE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of disseminate for English Language Learners
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: to cause (something, such as information) to go to many people
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