propagate

Example Sentences

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Interconnectedness can propagate and amplify losses through the financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

"One such device is a 'microwave circulator' that only allows microwave radio signals to propagate in one direction," Hoffmann explained.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

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

“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

It is more seemly to regard it as the last message to his fellow- creatures of a man who laboured with all his strength to propagate the noble truth - Love is of God.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall