as in to propagate
to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people
activists sent by the organization to disseminate their views
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Recent Examples of disseminate
The gruesome video of the assassination of Charlie Kirk is still being disseminated on social media.
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Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Critics of the law warn that a site operator could sell the ID information, which could also be obtained by hackers and disseminated.
—Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
With the defeat of the Germans at Stalingrad as well as the increase of bombing raids on their cities in 1943, the British government believed that the time was ripe to disseminate propaganda as part of a wider effort to encourage Germans to end the war.
—Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
In those cases, if someone goes into remission, disseminated cancer cells (DCCs)—which have broken away from a primary tumor and spread to distant organs—can remain dormant in the body for years or even decades before metastatic relapse.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 24 Sep. 2025
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Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Critics of the law warn that a site operator could sell the ID information, which could also be obtained by hackers and disseminated.
—Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
With the defeat of the Germans at Stalingrad as well as the increase of bombing raids on their cities in 1943, the British government believed that the time was ripe to disseminate propaganda as part of a wider effort to encourage Germans to end the war.
—Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
In those cases, if someone goes into remission, disseminated cancer cells (DCCs)—which have broken away from a primary tumor and spread to distant organs—can remain dormant in the body for years or even decades before metastatic relapse.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 24 Sep. 2025
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In fact, the study of wave-like phenomena can be traced back to early experiments done in the 1600s with water waves by pioneers like Christiaan Huygens, who understood that all waves could be treated as superpositions of many circular waves, propagating outward, all together.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
8 Oct. 2025
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The idea propagated by Saturday Night Live skits and sitcom one-liners that Lilith Fair was a misandrist showcase for joyless, hormonal angst was totally alien to accounts of what being there actually felt like.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
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Controlling a fire means ensuring that the fire can't spread or cross the containment line.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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These swells are expected to spread toward the Turks and Caicos Islands and Bahamas tonight and on Saturday.—
MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT,
Miami Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
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True to form, the country icon closed her message with humor, poking fun at an online hoax that circulated after her sister’s post.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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My helmet fan quit working before the start of the race, and about halfway through, my cool shirt quit circulating because everything was getting so hot that all the fans were tripping.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Disseminate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disseminate. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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