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
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
"Our approach relies on engineered metamaterials that are designed to control how waves propagate."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
But energy costs don’t stay contained; they propagate because they are a key input for many goods and services.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
It was once thought, in the days before relativity, that light did propagate through a special medium that permeated all of space, called “the luminiferous aether.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
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
It’s one of many factors the researchers had to consider in their acoustic modeling, along with wind speed, temperature and time of year, which can all affect how sound propagates through the ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2024
However, a common stumbling block has been a lack of understanding into how this spin current actually moves or propagates within the material itself.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 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
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 sphagnum austinii has been brought from Scotland, where it still grows, to the Yorkshire Dales and is being propagated in local nurseries before it is planted within the blanket bogs.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
That is the sort of narrative that’s being propagated online in large measure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
It propagated all the way around until it met its starting point.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
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
“It seems quite obvious to me that those propagating that post are either just looking for easy engagement and/or have never worked in a serious financial institution,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Correlations across asset classes could rise abruptly, propagating the initial stress like a wave across segments of the financial system seemingly uncorrelated.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026
Left untended, other cereals are capable of propagating themselves.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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