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The phrase "appeared to spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that seems to be expanding or becoming more widespread, often in a context of observation or perception.
Example: "The rumors about the new policy appeared to spread quickly among the employees."
Alternatives: "seemed to proliferate" or "looked like it was spreading."
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Another account, Heart of Texas, appeared to spread photos across the social bookmarking site Pinterest.
On Friday, the protests also appeared to spread to upscale neighborhoods in several cities for the first time.
The venue's Grand Hall was badly damaged but half of the centre was saved from the flames that appeared to spread from the roof.
The violence appeared to spread to other cities, although attacks on mosques and offices linked to the Badr group were on a much smaller scale.
While obesity appeared to spread even among people who lived far apart, happiness appears to be transmitted only among people who live within a mile of one another.
The initial introductions came on Puerto Rico in the 1960s, and the species thereafter appeared to spread naturally, having also reached St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, in the 1980s.
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Unfortunately, such love does not appear to spread to Britain.
The metastases didn't appear to spread centrifugally; they appeared in discrete, anatomically distant sites.
But chronic wasting disease appears to spread rapidly in captive elk and deer.
However, trade and revitalised tourism could inject hope where politics appears to spread despair.
The virus causing Middle East respiratory syndrome appears to spread from camels to humans.
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