as in to propagate
to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people
activists sent by the organization to disseminate their views
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Advice disseminated by the CDC is not binding on states and local jurisdictions which establish vaccination requirements for school children and in some cases healthcare workers and patients or residents of healthcare facilities.
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
The 94-year-old Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO is also changing his donation strategy from having his three children disseminate the remainder of his $147.4 billion fortune during the 10 years following his death.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 Nov. 2024
And cheap, lower-tech methods of creating and disseminating false information have been extremely successful on their own.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
On Monday, police credited news outlets for disseminating the images and the tipster for recognizing the suspect and calling authorities.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
The 94-year-old Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO is also changing his donation strategy from having his three children disseminate the remainder of his $147.4 billion fortune during the 10 years following his death.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 Nov. 2024
And cheap, lower-tech methods of creating and disseminating false information have been extremely successful on their own.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
On Monday, police credited news outlets for disseminating the images and the tipster for recognizing the suspect and calling authorities.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Slowly, ideas that Xiao and his allies had propagated decades ago—the stabilizing force of the strongman and a reverence for cultural traditions—seem to have arrived in the control center of the world’s most powerful liberal democracy.Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
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Poisoned data can train AI systems to make unsafe decisions, propagate bias or even execute security vulnerabilities.Steve Wilson, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Rapidly spreading wildfires tearing through Los Angeles County Wednesday have destroyed roughly 1,000 structures and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
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Many celebrities, including Spencer Pratt, Anna Faris, and Adrien Brody, have unfortunately lost their homes due to the rapidly spreading wildfires, with many other Angelenos under evacuation orders.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Security breach of bollards on pedestrian street Reports began circulating early on Wednesday morning that the bollards, or barricades protecting the pedestrian portions of Bourbon Street, should have been raised to prevent vehicles from possibly harming civilians.Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Jan. 2025
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Photos of the spooky sea squirts were circulating online among diving enthusiasts in Japan before Naohiro Hasegawa, a biologist at the University of Hokkaido, saw a tweet with the critters.Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Disseminate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disseminate. Accessed 13 Jan. 2025.
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