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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
Dawkins’s 1976 bestseller, The Selfish Gene, and Wilson’s field-defining 1975 book, Sociobiology, proposed that nearly any feature of human society could be explained in terms of its propensity to propagate the genes responsible for it.
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Erik Baker, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
But some of the original accusations were propagated by state media and bots associated with the Ministry of Defense, hinting at a schism within the party.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
With Combs’ trial underway this week in New York, Bieber’s rep released a statement Friday in part due to the many rumors that have propagated since Combs’ arrest that alluded to Bieber being an abuse victim of Combs.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
The New Risk Physics Twelve days of limited warfare revealed that risk now propagates along supply networks faster than along battle lines.
—Guney Yildiz, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Erik Baker, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
But some of the original accusations were propagated by state media and bots associated with the Ministry of Defense, hinting at a schism within the party.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
With Combs’ trial underway this week in New York, Bieber’s rep released a statement Friday in part due to the many rumors that have propagated since Combs’ arrest that alluded to Bieber being an abuse victim of Combs.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
The New Risk Physics Twelve days of limited warfare revealed that risk now propagates along supply networks faster than along battle lines.
—Guney Yildiz, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for propagate
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The disease is considered a highly invasive tumor in the central nervous system because its cells reproduce extremely quickly.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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With wild pigs reproducing rapidly and damaging both crops and ecosystems, researchers say more action is needed at the policy level.—
Vanessa Countryman,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
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Apple leaks and rumors are so common that there’s an entire media ecosystem to track and disseminate them.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
18 July 2025
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When projects are costly, urgent or time-specific, independently replicating them prior to disseminating results is often not feasible.—
Amanda Kay Montoya,
The Conversation,
17 July 2025
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Rather than multiplying the existing pixels on screen, Google’s generative AI tools created new pixels to increase the definition and scale of the film.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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The online posts began to multiply soon after Signal 99, an anonymous Facebook page with an emphasis on law and order in Cincinnati, shared one of the videos early Saturday morning with a caption mocking Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval.—
Dan Horn,
The Enquirer,
30 July 2025
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Since then, King has created over 150 renderings spread across 10 posts that show the Queen City from new angles.—
Sydney Franklin,
The Enquirer,
31 July 2025
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The Pan American Health Organization issued an epidemic warning as the worst yellow fever outbreak in decades spread across South America.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
31 July 2025
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“Propagate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propagate. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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