Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diffused
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The Defense Department's trillion-dollar budget is dispersed throughout smaller agencies and funding streams that use incompatible and often antiquated computer systems to keep track of money.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026 -
The remaining students ultimately dispersed, and normal traffic conditions were restored, the police department said.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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While the beginning of 2025 was slow due to tariff uncertainty, by May, that dissipated and customers returned to shopping.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
6 Feb. 2026
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But whatever momentum might have been generated by the first round of talks in January appeared to have dissipated by the start of the second gathering.—
Aidan Stretch,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The chief human resources officer at $76 billion giant Colgate-Palmolive, Sally Massey, dispelled the myths that Gen Z only brings high standards and chaos to the workplace.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Capital returns concerns Those modest improvements, though, have not dispelled concerns about the sustainability of Shell's capital returns program.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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Even with my limited knowledge, the mountain radiated a kind of gravity, as though the desert itself were remembering.—
Josh Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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A feeling of relief radiated throughout the Golden State Warriors organization late Wednesday night with the news of Jonathan Kuminga’s trade to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis.—
Nick Friedell,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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The brand also recently branched into socks in December.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
30 Jan. 2026
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The researchers found that Prototaxites’ tubes branched wildly, whereas the threadlike hyphae in modern fungi follow more orderly patterns.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Diffused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diffused. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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