disseminate
verb (used with object)
were disseminating
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past progressiveof disseminate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“What I can say with absolute certainty is that the DOJ did a terrible job when they were disseminating these files,” Hersh said.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2026
What if the half-million members of our army were disseminating this information inside the firms in which they work, rather like the Corporate Rebels United, that Peter van der Auwera described earlier in the day?
From Forbes ● Jan. 26, 2013
The Anabaptists of Germany had spread into France, and were disseminating many wild and fanatical opinions among those who had seceded from the Church of Rome.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
This led to an investigation, which showed that a number of young men and women, evidently belonging to the educated classes, were disseminating revolutionary ideas by means of pamphlets and conversation.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
The Battalion was piloted by the Adjutant over numerous broken-in trenches, while enemy aeroplanes were disseminating bombs quite liberally.
From The Story of the "9th King's" in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
