Sample Sentences for
propagate
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propagate as in:  propagate the idea

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The spread of the Roman Empire helped to propagate the idea throughout Europe.
propagate = spread
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    Her blog propagates preposterous rumors.
    propagates = spreads
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    The book had been published at Detroit by the Society for the Propagation of Fordian Knowledge.  (source)
    Propagation = spread
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    Hans Castorp would tilt his head and nod as he listened to the man propagate his earth-saving ideas in flights of fevered eloquence, and all the while he would explore the nature of his own contempt and disdain that prevented him from joining the inventor in his battle against a thoughtless world.  (source)
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    The titles were near as long as books themselves: Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the Manufacture of Wool, and the Cultivation and Manufacture of Flax, by John Wily, or Cato Major, Or His Discourse of Old-Age: With Explanatory Notes, by M. T. Cicero, or Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, and countless tracts containing sermons and advice.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    But the uncompromising Evangelical did not even now hold that he would have been justified in giving his son, an unbeliever, the same academic advantages that he had given to the two others, when it was possible, if not probable, that those very advantages might have been used to decry the doctrines which he had made it his life's mission and desire to propagate, and the mission of his ordained sons likewise.  (source)
    propagate = spread
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    It propagated all the way around until it met its starting point.†  (source)
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    Anywhere life exists, the metavirus is there, too, propagating through it.†  (source)
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    It's a translation that propagates the bourgeois theory of humanitarism.†  (source)
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    He claimed that, while they were essentially similar to earthly bacteria in structure, being based upon proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, they had no cell nucleus and therefore their manner of propagation was a mystery.†  (source)
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    She messed with the genes to make them propagate more easily.†  (source)
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    Were these horror stories propagated by the government in order to discourage people?†  (source)
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    "Yes, well," the girl continued, hesitating, "you just mentioned 'outdated religious superstition,' and it seems to me that if anyone is responsible for propagating outdated superstitions ....it would be the Masons."†  (source)
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    There is not a drop of Tom's corrupted blood but propagates infection and contagion somewhere.†  (source)
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propagate as in:  propagate the species

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The plant is typically propagated by seed or cuttings.
propagated = reproduced
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    To get a genetically identical plant, you'll need to propagate it with cuttings.
    propagate = reproduce
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    Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.  (source)
    propagated = reproduced
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    There are constables at the doors—"to prevent further propagation of the species," it said in the newspaper.  (source)
    propagation = procreation (producing offspring)
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    Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life is possible.  (source)
    propagation = reproduction
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Man, truly the animal that talks, is the only one that needs conversations to propagate its species … In love, conversations play an almost greater role than anything else.  (source)
    propagate = procreate (create offspring)
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    It all had to do with the next generation, the propagation of the human species, yes indeed.  (source)
    propagation = procreation (producing offspring)
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    And she is an unimpeachable Christian, I am sure; perhaps of the very tribe, genus, and species you desire to propagate.  (source)
    propagate = multiply
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    Men attach importance only to self-preservation and the propagation of their species.  (source)
    propagation = procreation (producing offspring)
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    Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest With more of thine.  (source)
    propagate = multiply
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    One is this hypothesis: that every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connexion with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.  (source)
    propagation = procreation (producing offspring)
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    In the search for some link, scientists had stooped to the absurdity of hypothesizing living material with no structure, unorganized organisms, which if placed in a solution of protein would grow like crystals in a nutrient solution—whereas, in fact, organic differentiation was simultaneously the prerequisite and expression of all life, and no life-form could be proved that did not owe its existence to propagation by a parent.  (source)
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    From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.†  (source)
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