propagate
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"Why do solar storms propagate in this way? What are their structures, and can we develop models that allow us to predict them?" asked Carole Mundell, the ESA's director of science.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 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
Interconnectedness can propagate and amplify losses through the financial system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
By directly linking viral spread to cell movement, this mechanism challenges long-standing assumptions about how infections propagate.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 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
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
As digestion precedes the first, so generation follows the last of these functions, and not only continues the same species of action, but propagates it widely to new existences in the manner just described.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker
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
There’s a whole discourse that women only want to marry tall, beefy, high-testosterone, aggro men, but that discourse is largely propagated by male influencers and people trying to sell protein powder.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2025
It propagated all the way around until it met its starting point.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Also, the wild agave plant is very good at propagating itself.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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
To develop a whole-virus vaccine, researchers must first spend months isolating and propagating the virus.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025
Left untended, other cereals are capable of propagating themselves.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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