propagate

Example Sentences

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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

But the method required splicing DNA of different organisms and using bacteria to propagate samples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

“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 • Aug. 11, 2025

But instead of ogling violence to exploit its evil and nauseate the audience, Lynch calls attention to the systems that propagate it.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025

Besides the material on chinchillas, he also brought from the capital the popular wartime booklets that had been created to propagate the image of the heroic soldier, and sentimental novels he had bought for Blanca.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende