propagate
verb (used with object)
to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
self-propagating
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a word derived from
propagate.
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
And some four billion years ago, on this planet Earth – one world out of trillions – your ancestral pieces began a journey of self-propagating novelty generation that would reach across time to make you.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2018
“The kind of gene drive that is invasive and self-propagating is in many ways the equivalent of an invasive species,” he added.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2017
Remarkably, prions are composed of self-propagating assemblies of a misfolded cellular protein that encode information, generate neurotoxicity and evolve and adapt in vivo.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
The work of the self-propagating chromatin granules is so ordered that periods of undisturbed metabolic activity alternate with periods of reproductive activity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
