diffused

past tense of diffuse

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Verb
  • No arrests were reported, and police said the group dispersed without incident.
    Abby Dodge, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • More than 50 years after the band dispersed, the Beatles legacy has of course lived on.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • As alibis and polygraph tests dissipated police theories and the case moved from one investigator to another, newspaper interviews from the ’80s and ’90s capture the family’s desperate plea for answers melt into somber acceptance and hope that Carla wasn’t somewhere out there suffering.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • After the three-hour event, which culminated in stirring speeches by the Obamas and an all-star musical finale, much of the crowd and the media dissipated.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Those changes came at full-back and in midfield, two areas of concern for this Brazil team that were not dispelled by the 1-1 draw against Morocco.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Any apprehensions about whether a first-time collaboration between Hartford’s two largest self-producing theaters — Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford — could gel smoothly enough to grasp all the nuances of this challenging work are dispelled immediately by the opening number.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Intensity radiated throughout the playoffs.
    Nick Friedell, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • The largely peaceful celebration radiated out into the streets around the Garden, with some fans climbing on street signs and jumping on top of vehicles.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • On June 2, Sandy also branched for the first time.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 June 2026
  • Over time, the firm expanded through acquisitions and branched into business software, health care technology and financial services, renaming itself Global Growth in 2020, according to its website.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
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“Diffused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diffused. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.

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