Example Sentences

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“In more acidic water, the low frequency sounds will propagate further,” Dr. Leroy said.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2020

Yellow means he has photographed it, green means he will propagate by bulb chipping and red means he is considering naming it.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2019

The difference with self-driving cars is that when one car experiences a rare event, the learning experience will propagate to all other self-driving cars, a form of collective intelligence.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2018

The lodge encourages fishermen to release salmon above 40 pounds, in the hope that they will propagate more supersize salmon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 9, 2018

What we do with our world in this time will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully determine the destiny of our descendants and their fate, if any, among the stars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan