spread
Example Sentences
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The researchers also found that spreading ions across many channels reduces the strong electrical repulsion that occurs when large numbers of similarly charged particles are packed into a small space.
From Science Daily
Interest in regulating the booming asset class has spread across the aisle in Congress amid concerns over prediction-market insider trading and sports markets that sidestep state gambling regulations.
From Barron's
ET auction for 10-year Treasury notes went off better than expected, easing worries that the turmoil was spreading into U.S. government debt.
But it was through that audit that the trust became aware there had been "inappropriate access that spread from their own trust to the acute trust".
From BBC
He maintains, for instance, that Hinduism never spread as Buddhism or Christianity did primarily because it lacked portable written texts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
