Example Sentences

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“As they start to stack, it becomes a more self-propagating force.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2022

Surrealism was more like an epidemic: an ambient, variable, self-propagating language of refusal that artists like these could direct as needed.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

A dataome is the successful encoding of self-propagating, evolving information into a different substrate, and with a seemingly different spatial and temporal distribution— routing much of its function through a biological system like us.

From Scientific American • Jul. 2, 2021

PrP exists in a healthy form, but causes disease when it misfolds into shapes that induce other PrP molecules to do the same — and so becomes self-propagating.

From Nature • Oct. 25, 2016

Our Baptist mission churches are fast becoming models of self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating bodies.

From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins