PROPAGATED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

propagated

verb

past tense of propagate

as in reproduced

to bring forth offspring the dams along the river are interfering with the salmon's ability to propagate

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Relevance

as in disseminated

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 propagated But sometimes this connection is propagated within the community itself to make a salient point about a complex condition. —

Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 Because of their structure, they can only be propagated through division, not through trimmings. —

Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 8 June 2026 This is why fruit crops are almost always propagated vegetatively, or cloned, rather than grown from seed. —

Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026 By the time a human intervenes, the narrative has already propagated, indexed by search engines, embedded in datasets, and echoed across platforms. —

Wyles Daniel may 19, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026 That means the tree is protected by a federal plant patent and can't be propagated at home. —

Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 May 2026 Singh and his team have propagated more than 10,000 native plants, replacing ornamental imports with species that belong here. —

Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026 The community is invited to select from hundreds of California native plants, drought-tolerant selections, vegetables, herbs, perennials, succulents, as well as specialty plants propagated from members’ own gardens—many of them unusual varieties unavailable at commercial nurseries. —

Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2026 The scenic seaside town was once a hub for members of France’s high society who preferred something more laid back than the glitzy Cote d’Azur in the east, and a casual atmosphere still persists here, thanks in part to the surf culture that has propagated over the years. —

Monica Mendal, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2026

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— Kira Willey, CNBC, 17 June 2026
The team proved that Monte Carlo simulations based on the new Hamiltonian framework reproduced both steady and changing states of the original nonreciprocal system.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026