propagating

present participle of propagate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of propagating Such a blatant falsehood making it to the press conference betrays the fact that there is no limit to how false something has to be in order for this administration to resist propagating it. Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025 To develop a whole-virus vaccine, researchers must first spend months isolating and propagating the virus. Deborah Fuller, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025 Continue propagating mature clumps by division in spring. Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025 To develop a whole-virus vaccine, researchers must first spend months isolating and propagating the virus. Deborah Fuller, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025 Ask how your system updates its models, handles evolving processes and prevents mistakes from propagating. Karpagam Narayanan, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Cracks are propagating in a Republican Party and right wing that have been historically supportive of the country. Emily Brooks, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for propagating
Verb
  • The costs of reproducing living labor varied in response to struggle.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Without people in the loop, AI risks reproducing the inherent problems that it is meant to avoid, including discrimination, institutional incompetence and overall distrust.
    Gangesh Pathak, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cultural and institutional barriers to disseminating them have decreased.
    Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • To remember how these three women—and other journalists like them—got down to the business of reporting on what was happening, disseminating information to the masses and becoming a part of history, though none of them knew it at the time.
    Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Their two-income household had dropped to one, and Fleming’s son required more in-home medical equipment, multiplying their family’s expenses.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • And habits have a multiplying effect as well.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Separate the spreading root system by cutting or pulling it apart into several sections.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Berners-Lee was spreading his wings, too.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This will prevent mosquitoes from breeding in your yard.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Roland Emmerich became Hollywood’s king of disaster in the 1990s — mainly by cross-breeding the genre with alien and monster pictures, like Independence Day and Godzilla.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Propagating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propagating. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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