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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of propogate, a common misspelling of propagate.

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Examples

  • Who do you think pumps money into the right and left to promote amnesty, thats right Big Business and then the media propogates it by somehow touching on your liberal side by saying its mean spirited to want to deport illegals, or to limit immagration.

    Think Progress » Poll: Tea partiers afraid of ‘big government’ want the government to create jobs and rein in Wall Street. 2010

  • Not in a healthy society that realizes that marriage is the vehicle that best propogates that society.

    Imputed Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Intellectualism has become something divorced from its roots, for there is nothing truly intellectual about the sorts of intellectualism Orwell disdains, Chomsky propogates, Kamm attempts to criticize, and everybody suffers from.

    Those crazy intellectuals 2010

  • This map propogates the orbits of all 134 fragments from the two satellites smoothly in real time.

    Satellite Crash on Google Maps 2009

  • Erin, I have no idea how the plant propogates itself in the wild, but I kept reading how you must buy plants or grow it from cuttings because the plant doesn't make seeds.

    Sauteed Chicken Breasts Recipe with Tarragon-Mustard Pan Sauce Kalyn Denny 2008

  • Of cource the secopndary particles hit other molecules and atoms in the atmosphere and so the cascade propogates through the atmosphere but the energy of the origonal cosmic ray is being spread out and there is a corrasponding - and basically exponential decrease in the energy

    Snell-Pym » Cosmogenic nuclides and Dating 2008

  • And then more people start using the drug and they too make videos, and YouTube actively propogates the drug's use.

    YouTube and the rise and fall of a powerful hallucinogen. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Secondly, the popular or folkloric apocalyptic tradition usually propogates imagery that is metaphorically consistent with the Biblical tradition, and so tends to be illuminated just as well by being read in relation to it.

    Review of War of the Worlds Richard Nokes 2005

  • Secondly, the popular or folkloric apocalyptic tradition usually propogates imagery that is metaphorically consistent with the Biblical tradition, and so tends to be illuminated just as well by being read in relation to it.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • The nature of communication is such that error propogates faster than accuracy; it is generally simpler, whereas accuracy requires work and understanding.

    Reflections on Blogging Michael Turton 2007

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