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as in to disseminate
to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people
the various ways in which churches can propagate the faith
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Recent Examples of propagate
Western civilization will thrive and propagate itself across the cosmos.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Banana plants propagate vegetatively by offsets that grow up from their base with masses of leaves.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 25 July 2025
Google's Veo 3 videos have propagated across the Internet since the model's debut in May, blurring the line between truth and fiction.
—ArsTechnica, 10 July 2025
But the downside is that any misconfiguration—an open security group, an overprivileged IAM role or an unencrypted storage bucket—can propagate across environments automatically.
—Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Banana plants propagate vegetatively by offsets that grow up from their base with masses of leaves.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 25 July 2025
Google's Veo 3 videos have propagated across the Internet since the model's debut in May, blurring the line between truth and fiction.
—ArsTechnica, 10 July 2025
But the downside is that any misconfiguration—an open security group, an overprivileged IAM role or an unencrypted storage bucket—can propagate across environments automatically.
—Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for propagate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for propagate
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The second season doesn’t attempt to immediately reproduce the dance scene, and thank heavens for that.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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Through radio and snow tracking, biologists later found that the fishers that were released in northwestern Connecticut had high survival rates and successfully reproduced.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
5 Aug. 2025
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All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium.—
Tony Zhang,
CNBC,
13 Aug. 2025
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Plus, while a bipartisan House group reviews and approves materials, the rules on franking allow representatives to disseminate political critiques and messages that can sometimes appear like campaign ads.—
Brittany Carloni,
IndyStar,
11 Aug. 2025
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This bacteria was found to be multiplying in, guess what, the cooling tower of the hotel’s air conditioning system.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Lawn signs promoting candidates seemed to multiply overnight ahead of Election Day in Detroit as mayoral hopefuls made their last-minute attempts to lure voters to the polls to support them as the race was narrowed from nine candidates to two.—
Aurora Sousanis,
Freep.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Blazes have spread across southern Europe in recent days.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
12 Aug. 2025
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Four other bedrooms and eight bathrooms are spread across the upper and lower levels.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Propagate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propagate. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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