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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

"Imagine a quick pluck of a guitar string where the impulse propagates along the string at a speed determined by the string's tension and diameter," Palastro says.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024

It propagates a worldview in which we are disinterested not only in learning but one another.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2023

Man nourishes himself, grows, propagates his kind, moves about, and is endowed with sense-perception.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)