propagate
Example Sentences
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Interconnectedness can propagate and amplify losses through the financial system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
A former member of the jihadist group told reporters in 2019 that they were originally funded by a military intelligence unit to propagate a fundamentalist ideology in Sri Lanka's multi-ethnic eastern province.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
By directly linking viral spread to cell movement, this mechanism challenges long-standing assumptions about how infections propagate.
From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026
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 • Dec. 28, 2025
It was once thought, in the days before relativity, that light did propagate through a special medium that permeated all of space, called “the luminiferous aether.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing propagate
Romeo and Juliet
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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