propagate

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Even if new technologies are found and propagate, the convenience of oil and gas (and perhaps coal) is indisputable.

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  1. transitive verb To cause (an organism) to multiply or breed.
  2. transitive verb To breed (offspring).
  3. transitive verb To transmit (characteristics) from one generation to another.

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  • Perfectly sane human beings have no need to do more than live and propagate, all under the conditions of greatest comfort By those standards," said Paul, still backing up, "most of the human race is insane You are quite wrong," said the voice, "roughly eighty-five per cent of the human race has had no real desire outside the framework I mentioned. —  Dickson, Gordon - Childe Cycle 02 Necromancer
  • To defend, propagate, and perpetuate African slavery was his mission. —  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2
  • Hence for the species to propagate, the male would need to increase the chance that an encounter with a female would result in successful fertilization; and therefore, the male needs a heightened degree of fertility. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The big lie they propagate is a sacred one in mainstream economics: markets are magic and will solve everything. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • Alternatively, the script can call the propagate method on the output message assembly object to manually propagate the assembly to a terminal (pass the terminal name as the parameter). —  LXer Linux News
 

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  1. Latin prōpāgāre, prōpāgāt-; see pag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin propagatus, past participle of propagare (later Italian propagare = Portuguese Spanish propagar = French propager). peg down (a layer), set (slips or cuttings), propagate, extend, continue (cf. propago, a layer of a plant, a set, slip, shoot, hence offspring, progeny), from pro, forth, + pangere (√ pag), fasten, set: see pact. Hence ult. proin, prune.
 

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