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as in disseminates
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 propagates
African blue basil propagates readily from 4-6 inch shoot tip cuttings.
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Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
Gravitational radiation propagates outward away from the source that generates it, and propagates through spacetime.
—Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
Separate Offshoots The aloe plant propagates itself by growing offshoots, known as pups.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2026
The nature of the American political system propagates scads of lawyers and poseurs who blather on endlessly, promising everything and delivering little.
—Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
The data enters the reservoir, propagates through its complex structure, and then is connected by a set of final synapses to the output.
—Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2025
Sound is a mechanical wave that propagates through a medium, such as a gas, liquid or solid, by causing particles to oscillate and transmit energy through the material.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
The former is a young plant company, which propagates seedlings and ships them off to be planted worldwide.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
At the furthest edge of this vision lies a future where entire organizations operate not as hierarchies or even networks but as coherent light fields, where strategic intent propagates through resonance rather than reporting lines.
—Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
Gravitational radiation propagates outward away from the source that generates it, and propagates through spacetime.
—Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
Separate Offshoots The aloe plant propagates itself by growing offshoots, known as pups.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2026
The nature of the American political system propagates scads of lawyers and poseurs who blather on endlessly, promising everything and delivering little.
—Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
The data enters the reservoir, propagates through its complex structure, and then is connected by a set of final synapses to the output.
—Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2025
Sound is a mechanical wave that propagates through a medium, such as a gas, liquid or solid, by causing particles to oscillate and transmit energy through the material.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
The former is a young plant company, which propagates seedlings and ships them off to be planted worldwide.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
At the furthest edge of this vision lies a future where entire organizations operate not as hierarchies or even networks but as coherent light fields, where strategic intent propagates through resonance rather than reporting lines.
—Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for propagates
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The test consisted of a 7-MW grid simulator that replicates disturbances and voltage ride-through events, and a 20-MW load simulator that reproduces real-world demand dynamics such as those created by an AI data center.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Apr. 2026
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This includes the importance of gestures such as going to retrieve from the family casket a pin that reproduces the British and American flags together, as well as those that actually fly on the streets of Washington.—
Giorgia Olivieri,
Vanity Fair,
28 Apr. 2026
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Much of that money has been routed through a nonprofit judicial advocacy group Leo founded — now called The 85 Fund — which both receives and disseminates Leo’s funding.—
Abrahm Lustgarten,
ProPublica,
7 Apr. 2026
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Federal privacy laws require such documents before a federal agency collects or disseminates personal, identifiable information about the public for a new purpose.—
Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
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Trapped by a quarantine with no way out, residents are forced into a desperate fight for survival as the threat multiplies by the second.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 Apr. 2026
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The vast majority of fatal crashes are preventable with changes to infrastructure that forces drivers to slow down — a crash at 20 mph, for example, is extremely unlikely to kill anyone involved, but the risk multiplies very quickly at all speeds over 20 mph.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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For Monday, the severe weather threat spreads northeast and stretches across the Mississippi Valley up into the Midwest.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Then, in the next neuron, a dendritic plateau potential causes a widespread voltage change that spreads across the entire dendrite.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Apr. 2026
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