propagate
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"Why do solar storms propagate in this way? What are their structures, and can we develop models that allow us to predict them?" asked Carole Mundell, the ESA's director of science.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Our approach relies on engineered metamaterials that are designed to control how waves propagate."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Any pullback in stock markets has major negative wealth effects, and because the U.S. is pretty much two thirds of the world’s stock market capitalization a “U.S.-led repricing could propagate globally.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
The consequences propagate outward—first into food systems, then into fragile states, then into migration pressures at the borders of more-resilient economies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called "strange quarks," which could, theoretically, interact with other subatomic particles and propagate uncontrollably.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Over generations, the trait propagates through the population until what was once a rare mutation becomes commonplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Tár” takes place inside that vacuum, where the conductor propagates this great myth to maintain her control.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
Recent publications by the Hannezo group suggest that cell communication propagates in waves -- an interplay between biochemical signals, physical behavior, and motion.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
Now a nonprofit, the group propagates and distributes about 10,000 native saplings annually from wild-collected seed, mostly to other nonprofits and ecological restoration efforts.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
Let us add that thought, too, propagates itself throughout mankind, in like manner with the germ plasm.
From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland
In contrast, the Wrightwood earthquake of 1812 crossed the junction and propagated through both fault systems as a single event.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
The sphagnum austinii has been brought from Scotland, where it still grows, to the Yorkshire Dales and is being propagated in local nurseries before it is planted within the blanket bogs.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
To get around this awkwardness, Winthrop et al. propagated the notion—formalized in the colony’s 1629 seal—that the Native Americans needed the new settlers for their own good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
There’s a whole discourse that women only want to marry tall, beefy, high-testosterone, aggro men, but that discourse is largely propagated by male influencers and people trying to sell protein powder.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2025
The problems of simultaneity do not apply to sound as they do to light because sound is propagated through some material medium, usually air.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Helen Litchfield, secretary of the botany section at La Société Guernesiaise, said the team's efforts in propagating the dwarf pansy meant it was no longer at risk.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
“It seems quite obvious to me that those propagating that post are either just looking for easy engagement and/or have never worked in a serious financial institution,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Correlations across asset classes could rise abruptly, propagating the initial stress like a wave across segments of the financial system seemingly uncorrelated.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026
To develop a whole-virus vaccine, researchers must first spend months isolating and propagating the virus.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025
George Mason University There is enough mathematical illiteracy in this country, and we don’t need the world’s highest IQ propagating more.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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