propagate
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The saplings just now poking their needles into the sunlight, and hundreds more that we would only be able to be seen on our hands and knees, will grow and propagate, he said.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
The team anticipates this discovery will spark further investigations into how these waves propagate and dissipate energy in the corona.
From Science Daily
To develop a whole-virus vaccine, researchers must first spend months isolating and propagating the virus.
From Salon
“And people have observed that when the fault is very smooth, the rupture ... tends to propagate at a velocity” so fast that it results in an “extremely elongated rupture,” Avouac said.
From Los Angeles Times
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