disseminated

verb

Definition of disseminatednext
past tense of disseminate
as in propagated
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 disseminated Kotthaus answered that it was disseminated intravascular coagulation—a blood-clotting disorder. — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026 Those who disseminated the materials must disclose their spending to the Secretary of State’s Office. — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 22 Oct. 2026 After the Bauhaus, people came to Yale, taught at Black Mountain College, and then those ideas disseminated to Cranbrook, Otis, CalArts, and other schools. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 It’s calculated via a weighted average of the time according to atomic clocks around the world and disseminated by the BIPM. — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 15 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 The message, disseminated not just within Israel but among the diaspora, is that one Israeli, alive or dead, is worth untold numbers of Arabs. — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026 But none of that would matter if Daniels wasn’t on board — not only with the system, but with how it was disseminated. — David Aldridge, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disseminated
  1. propagated
  2. circulated
  3. spread
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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
  • Cultivation The plant grows naturally on riverbeds, grasslands, and human-disturbed areas; it can be propagated from both seeds and stem cuttings.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of propagated
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  • Images circulated daily on social media of children killed as collateral damage in strikes on Hamas targets.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Hollywood star Zendaya made a surprise appearance at Folsom High School’s football game Friday night, drawing attention from students and fans after photos and videos of her visit circulated on social media.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of circulated
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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
Definition of spread

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