propagate
verb (used with object)
to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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The Haiti-born Peck included the scenes in a "critical way because it's about this image that Hollywood has been propagating, and it's not really the reality."
From Reuters ● Feb. 17, 2017