spread
Example Sentences
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Data provided to The Times by Melissa, a global address provider, shows that most of those displaced in the two fires stayed close to home but they also spread tendrils across the country.
From Los Angeles Times
"My main motivation was to make sure that what was happening there stayed there, so that the conflict did not spread to our territory," he said.
From Barron's
Dukes said she wanted people to "embrace all animals and birds" and hoped the fact that the installation was mobile would help spread the importance of art and creativity.
From BBC
Instead of keeping data in one fixed location, these qubits spread information across two linked quantum states called Majorana zero modes.
From Science Daily
Companies such as Instagram, Facebook and X will have three hours, down from 36, to comply with government takedown orders, in a bid to stop damaging posts from spreading rapidly.
From Barron's
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