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Khrushchev had been propagating this myth, bragging that his factories were churning out missiles “like sausages.”

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2022

Duthie notes that the grandfather had died three years earlier, indicating that the disease had been propagating in the child for at least that long.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2013

On arriving in New York after an absence of nine years, I found that I had been propagating a version of the typical American which was founded on a hopelessly out-of-date model.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, Karl Marx and his disciple, Frederic Engels, had been propagating their theories, and in 1848 the former published his famous work on the ideal social state.

From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley