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disseminate

[dih-sem-uh-nayt] / dɪˈsɛm əˌneɪt /


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“Their intent was to disseminate false and derogatory information about Ms. Comans as widely as possible.”

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

"We urge the public not to disseminate related information, to reject cyberbullying, and to work together to create a good environment for the growth of minors," reads an official statement.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Ahead of their time, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in particular used their positions to influence public health and disseminate medical knowledge to their communities and people around the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

In their open letter, the memorials called on social media platforms to "proactively combat AI content that distorts history" and to "exclude accounts that disseminate such content from all monetisation programmes".

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we disseminate widely in our environment?

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Much of that money has been routed through a nonprofit judicial advocacy group Leo founded — now called The 85 Fund — which both receives and disseminates Leo’s funding.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

The letter said that project was aimed at assessing how the Secret Service identifies, receives, disseminates and operationalizes intelligence concerning threats to the officials it protects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

“If a city in a country wants to promote its tourism, its culture, that’s a very different thing from a paid advertisement that disseminates discriminatory messages,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

The brain puppeteers the hormone system, which disseminates chemical signals through the bloodstream, and those chemicals can spark a wide variety of biological responses.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2023

Nevertheless, from this egoistic root springs a flower which disseminates the perfume of a saintly self-abnegation.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton

Earlier this morning, she was huddled in a room full of men—each brandishing neatly bullet-pointed memos—drumming up talking points about A.I. safety that will soon be disseminated across Capitol Hill.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

The law applies to political “advertisements,” a term it defines broadly as “a communication” that is “published, disseminated, distributed or displayed to the public,” although the meaning of “public” is left open.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The church denies that the aim of the lawsuit is to silence a popular maverick whose content is widely disseminated by critics of Mormonism.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

"So we do need better content that is disseminated through these platforms," he told a press conference.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

But, thanks to these translations and the printing press, Galen’s work was disseminated more widely than ever before over the next ten years or so.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

In group chats, on social media and at the specialized camps where they hone their skills, kickers are disseminating vital information on how much they get paid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The virus has been "rampant and silently disseminating for a few weeks already", she said.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

“What I can say with absolute certainty is that the DOJ did a terrible job when they were disseminating these files,” Hersh said.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2026

The filing does not mention Perez-Lugones disseminating the information.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

Thus the category ‘discovery’ proved to be capable of disseminating across the various local cultures of Renaissance Europe, but it did not fare well elsewhere.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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