spread among

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In Rwampara and other villages outside the city of Bunia, home to more than a million people and tens of thousands of others displaced by conflict, worry has begun to spread among the population.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Word began to spread among Magyar supporters, and at the nearby hotel that had become party HQ, Tisza activists hugged each other.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

How these circoviruses spread among whales and whether they cause disease remain open questions.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

Kopec fully endorsed the idea: “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have some bottles that he carefully selected, spread among his friends?’

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

There were three hundred wells, fifty thousand date trees, and innumerable colored tents spread among them.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho