Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Propagating one's self or itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Propagating by one's self or by itself.
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Examples
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In addition to the serious health issues, the self-propagating genetic pollution from GMOs is not reversible with current technology, and may outlast global warming and nuclear waste.
Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Jeffery Smith Maria Rodale 2010
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The Researchers seem to believe that creating a synthetic self-propagating life form has an upside, like an organism that excretes biofuel.
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Their self-propagating genetic pollution is irreversible; it can outlast the effects of global warming and nuclear waste.
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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A junior-high student came up with the first self-propagating program released outside the lab.
The First Virus... Michael Totty 2011
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These new ones were a distilled set of basic self-propagating equations that, when housed in a quiet, stimulus-free shell on a board with a few TBytes of space for growth, had a high probability of achieving sentience.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Their self-propagating genetic pollution is irreversible; it can outlast the effects of global warming and nuclear waste.
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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In addition to the serious health issues, the self-propagating genetic pollution from GMOs is not reversible with current technology, and may outlast global warming and nuclear waste.
Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Jeffery Smith Maria Rodale 2010
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Like those elementary school cartoons showing self-propagating, transverse oscillating waves of electric and magnetic fields, the physical laws of interstellar travel are twinned with intrachronological transfer.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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This was an enormous and ubiquitous intellectual error and powerfully persuasive because of its ubiquity, and, like a computer virus, a self-propagating one.
Robert Teitelman: McLean and Nocera's All the Devils Are Here Robert Teitelman 2010
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This was an enormous and ubiquitous intellectual error and powerfully persuasive because of its ubiquity, and, like a computer virus, a self-propagating one.
Robert Teitelman: McLean and Nocera's All the Devils Are Here Robert Teitelman 2010
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