propagator
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈprɒpəˌɡeɪtər/
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propagador
- Gramsci (1971) further elaborated the functions of intellectuals as originators and propagators of cultural hegemony in his Prison Notebooks.
Examples
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But it is time that we stop the "serial cheat" and the "serial propagator."
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I believe that with this COPRE, we are converting ourselves into propagators of illusions.
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People like you are the propagators of evil.
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Another interesting quick summary of Alinski's teachings and the fact that Obama was a student and propagator of the philosophy.
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While its earliest identifiable contributors were in the West, this myth's most dynamic propagators were in the East.
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Truth is, the propagators of such claptrap—likely sexually compromised themselves—could care less what people do sexually.
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While evangelicalism does not represent a tradition and typically has values characteristic of an anti-culture, it does name an agglomeration or concentration of shifting consumer tastes, clustered around and focused upon particular 'culture' producers and propagators and the products and forms that they champion.
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Father Michele de Geromini, agent of the convent of SS. Annunziata in Genoa and a fervent propagator of the institution, was eager to see the Turchine established in Rome.
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That he was politically liberal is well documented: he was a card-carrying member of the Social Democratic Party, which was the Nazis' official reason for his dismissal in 1933 from his high school teaching post; they also publicly attacked him during the "degenerate art" action that banished modern art from German museums, listing him as one of its critical propagators.
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The speaker was known as a passionate propagator of environmental awareness, traveling around the country to share his message.
Synonyms
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3.2
A person who explains ideas or information clearly to others
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5.0
A person who gets news and media attention for someone or something
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3.8
A person with many followers on social media who gets paid to promote products or ideas
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7.0
A person who shares information or news with other people
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5.5
A person who makes a subject easy to understand for many people
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8.5
A person who writes short leaflets to support a political or social cause
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5.9
A person who publicly tells others about religious beliefs
A person or group who makes something known to many people to promote it
A person who often tells news or rumors to many people
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Propagator comes from the Latin propagare, which means 'to spread' or 'to make grow' and is the same root as propagate and propaganda. Think of someone scattering seeds to push ideas forward: a propagator is a person who spreads news or ideas to others.