DISSEMINATE Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

disseminate

verb

di-ˈse-mə-ˌnāt

Definition of disseminate

as in to propagate

to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people activists sent by the organization to disseminate their views

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Recent Examples of disseminate The order and accompanying legislation must be designed so that collecting and disseminating foreign trade secrets advances defense and intelligence priorities and does not unduly distort the free market. — David S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026 Additionally, when other news and media outlets republish our pieces via the Creative Commons license, our work gets disseminated widely. — Katrina Stack, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026 Busch died in May from hemorrhagic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis, according to the former NASCAR star’s death certificate. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 Mid-market carve-outs rarely command a TSA long enough to deliberate, so the real skill is collecting and disseminating the supporting information quickly enough that leadership can make sound choices in rapid succession. — Miki Kapoor, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for disseminate

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View this post on Instagram Because of the news of her divorce, the post trickled through the celebrity gossip outlets, and that coverage in turn propagated the post through Google search.

— Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026
The flow of the attacks was (1) finding targets, (2) gaining code execution, (3) establishing inference, and (4) propagating to new hosts.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

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Infrastructure on this scale needs a dedicated body that can keep pace with the technology and draw on the expertise already spread across existing agencies.

— Neil Chatterjee, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Nigeria’s health minister, Muhammad Ali Pate, said authorities had found no evidence that the virus had spread into communities.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026

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