spread the word
idiom
: to tell others
People are spreading the word about his book.
Spread the word that we're leaving in five minutes.
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Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin even helped spread the word in a video posted to social media.
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Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Damato hopes to spread the word about their work at upcoming Linux kernel networking conferences this year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2025
After interviewing O’Halloran, Stanton offered to help spread the word about her scones.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2025
In Benin, a program brought together farmer and pastoralist communities to spread the word about looming dry spells because drought meant herders would sometimes bring their animals to graze on other people’s farms, and conflicts would get out of hand.
—Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Damato hopes to spread the word about their work at upcoming Linux kernel networking conferences this year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2025
After interviewing O’Halloran, Stanton offered to help spread the word about her scones.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2025
In Benin, a program brought together farmer and pastoralist communities to spread the word about looming dry spells because drought meant herders would sometimes bring their animals to graze on other people’s farms, and conflicts would get out of hand.
—Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Spread the word.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spread%20the%20word. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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