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 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 Although at first dismissed as mere curiosities, WHEEP-3’s criticisms of the AI industry became widely disseminated when Tran published a collection of them in a book, Principal Components of Artifice, an instant bestseller. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026 New technologies are being disseminated ever more quickly, and the machinery of politics and law delivers accountability at best intermittently, and then only at a painstaking crawl. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026 The Republican nominee’s comments were first reported by Bangor Daily News and later disseminated by the Maine Democratic Party. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2026 The post was private but was snipped and disseminated on social media before it was deleted less than an hour later. — Ana Goñi-Lessan, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 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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  • From here, heated water is circulated to fan coil units (FCUs) to circulate warm air throughout the poultry house.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • But some immigration advocates feel the reforms did not go far enough and have not been circulated widely.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of circulated
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  • That’s $280 billion from firms like Singapore’s Bitdeer, Australia’s Graphinex, Belgium’s UCB, South Korea’s Korea Zinc, and Japan’s Isuzu Motors, spread across more than 345 projects.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The company’s new Aura software measures hive health, pollen counts, and pesticide prevalence across its 2,200 hives spread around more than 70 cities.
    — Drew Robb, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of spread

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“Disseminated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disseminated. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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