propagation
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By contrast, the American propagation of individual rights and democracy has, from the beginning, supplemented and occasionally replaced such considerations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
"Spatially variable birefringence, that is, the difference in the propagation of different polarizations of light, acts like a synthetic magnetic field," explains Dr. Piotr Kapuściński of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
With a large area of marshes and rice fields, the Guadalquivir Valley has an eco-system that encourages the propagation of mosquitoes.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024
But someone in L.A. could have felt the “S” wave, in which bedrock oscillates perpendicular to the direction of the propagation of the wave, according to Page.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024
This one battle to patent radioactive salt threatened to extinguish all this goodwill, slowing down the propagation of the cyclotron if not halting it altogether.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing propagation
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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A Brief History of Time
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