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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
The agency was originally assigned three research categories including the study of waters and fish, fishing, and propagating fish as food for the nation.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Errors propagate down this chain of events resulting in situations where the initial objectives of a work assignment may need to be modified.
—Mark Settle, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Find out how to propagate begonias from cuttings or seeds with this simple, step-by-step guide.
—Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Feb. 2025
DeWitt propagated lies that Japanese Americans threatened national security and were signaling Japanese submarines from the West Coast in order to justify the government roundups.
—James M. Purcell, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2025
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Errors propagate down this chain of events resulting in situations where the initial objectives of a work assignment may need to be modified.
—Mark Settle, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Find out how to propagate begonias from cuttings or seeds with this simple, step-by-step guide.
—Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Feb. 2025
DeWitt propagated lies that Japanese Americans threatened national security and were signaling Japanese submarines from the West Coast in order to justify the government roundups.
—James M. Purcell, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for propagate
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This phenomenon, called multilevel selection, is an extension of natural selection: the process by which organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.—
Conner Philson,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
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The results clearly reproduced a similar pattern to earlier research.—
Samuel Axon,
ArsTechnica,
27 Mar. 2025
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All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium.—
Jeff Kilburg,
CNBC,
21 Mar. 2025
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Cuts already have decimated the department’s ability to fund, evaluate and disseminate research.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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Specifically, your function has to be a polynomial — a combination of variables raised to whole-number exponents and multiplied by coefficients.—
Stephen Ornes,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
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Children are commonly taught to add, subtract and even multiply two numbers by stacking them, one on top of the other.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
17 Mar. 2025
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The results came back as a Brucella suis infection, which causes a rare bacterial disease in humans and is spread by animals, according to the CDC.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
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After bird flu began to spread rapidly in dairy cattle, then infect farmworkers, the Biden administration lagged in its attempts to track and contain the virus, then largely left decisions about testing cows for the pathogen—the most effective way to track its spread—up to individual farmers.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Propagate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propagate. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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