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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
To propagate the orchid, remove this baby orchid and put it in its own pot.
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2026
Many plants that would normally struggle to propagate in the local soil are grown through grafting, a process in which the root of one plant is used to grow another.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
Gravitational radiation propagates outward away from the source that generates it, and propagates through spacetime.
—Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
That means that winemakers across what is now France must have switched from domesticating wild grapes to propagating them directly—that is, cloning grapevines by taking cuttings of the plants to start new groves.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2026
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2026
Many plants that would normally struggle to propagate in the local soil are grown through grafting, a process in which the root of one plant is used to grow another.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
Gravitational radiation propagates outward away from the source that generates it, and propagates through spacetime.
—Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
That means that winemakers across what is now France must have switched from domesticating wild grapes to propagating them directly—that is, cloning grapevines by taking cuttings of the plants to start new groves.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for propagate
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The result that best reproduced the data was not a single population, but a mixture of three distinct groups.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2026
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No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, or its parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium.—
Jay Woods,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2026
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The leadership also froze the agency’s other election security work, which included assessing local election offices for physical and cybersecurity risks, and disseminating sensitive intelligence information on threats.—
Doug Bock Clark,
ProPublica,
13 Apr. 2026
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Cleaning units Cleaning units are a measurement of the efficacy of a pressure washer and are a result of multiplying the PSI by the GPM.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2026
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The project is currently entirely based in the Kuno National Park, which will become more and more crowded if the free-ranging cheetah population continues to multiply.—
Chas Newkey-Burden,
TheWeek,
15 Apr. 2026
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Phoenix spreads over a whopping 517 square miles, and that’s not even including adjacent towns like Scottsdale and Tempe.—
Chris Malloy,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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The Thirty Years’ War, which was concluded by the Peace of Westphalia, in 1648, spread across mainland Europe and killed some eight million people.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Propagate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propagate. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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