propagate
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She pointed to a desire to boost domestic production in agriculture and other sectors, alongside a wish to propagate "family values" and liberties.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
McKeen recalled how he and other farmers at the time would pitch restaurants on serving fresh oysters, while simultaneously developing a scrappy style of aquaculture to propagate them in the Damariscotta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Any talk of changing the rules, salary cap or otherwise, to put reins on this kind of success would propagate underperformance and penalize this fascinating culture of constant improvement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Any pullback in stock markets has major negative wealth effects, and because the U.S. is pretty much two thirds of the world’s stock market capitalization a “U.S.-led repricing could propagate globally.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
“About three hundred years ago, some Rusty figured a way to engineer the species to adapt to wider conditions. She messed with the genes to make them propagate more easily.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Over generations, the trait propagates through the population until what was once a rare mutation becomes commonplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Tár” takes place inside that vacuum, where the conductor propagates this great myth to maintain her control.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
"What's special about YIG is that it propagates a magnetic spin wave," says Olsson, referring to the type of wave created in magnetic materials when electrons spin in a synchronized fashion.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024
Now a nonprofit, the group propagates and distributes about 10,000 native saplings annually from wild-collected seed, mostly to other nonprofits and ecological restoration efforts.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
When it conserves and propagates the good it is to be commended; but the worthless and the bad are often imitated also.
From Rural Life and the Rural School by Joseph Kennedy
The belief, which air theorists had propagated since the onset of combat planes in World War I, seemed confirmed by the results of World War II. However, the U.S.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Lee’s standout identity plays — “Straight White Men,” “The Shipment” and “Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven” — reject the illusion of stable, coherent characters propagated by psychological realism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Saplings which have been propagated from the few surviving trees in the county are being nurtured in Terrington, near Malton, before they are planted within the next two years.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
In contrast, the Wrightwood earthquake of 1812 crossed the junction and propagated through both fault systems as a single event.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
The problems of simultaneity do not apply to sound as they do to light because sound is propagated through some material medium, usually air.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Historically, a worm would exploit a fixed set of vulnerabilities, and that meant you could fix these vulnerabilities and prevent the worm from propagating any further to devices that had been updated.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
"We're seeing waves propagating radially and upward, in a cone-like shape," said Joan Alexander, senior research scientist at NorthWest Research Associates.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026
Helen Litchfield, secretary of the botany section at La Société Guernesiaise, said the team's efforts in propagating the dwarf pansy meant it was no longer at risk.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
Both countries poured billions of dollars into propagating their respective versions of Islamic orthodoxy around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
George Mason University There is enough mathematical illiteracy in this country, and we don’t need the world’s highest IQ propagating more.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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