as in dispersion
an act or process in which something scatters or is scattered
the dispersal of plant seeds in the forests through natural means
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Recent Examples of dispersal
Perhaps one of the most interesting seed dispersal tactics is the ones that explode.
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Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
Creating majority-Black districts in the South has been a longstanding remedy to the historic dispersal of minority populations across multiple districts to dilute their voting power.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Very little funding has actually been delivered, sources say, in part because Commerce has held up its dispersal.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2025
Even worse, Republicans ended the CTC’s monthly dispersal and actually shrunk how many children can get the CTC by 2 million.
—Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
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Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
Creating majority-Black districts in the South has been a longstanding remedy to the historic dispersal of minority populations across multiple districts to dilute their voting power.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Very little funding has actually been delivered, sources say, in part because Commerce has held up its dispersal.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2025
Even worse, Republicans ended the CTC’s monthly dispersal and actually shrunk how many children can get the CTC by 2 million.
—Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispersal
Noun
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These sorts of expeditions are known as dispersion movements.—
Ganesh Marín,
The Dial,
7 Oct. 2025
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This options trade will focus on the current dispersion amongst the S & P 500's 11 sectors.—
Jeff Kilburg,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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Very little has changed, a voice-over says, in the sixteen years between the scattering of the French 75 and Bob and Willa’s confrontation with military violence in Baktan Cross.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2025
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Light scattering is the same process that makes the sky blue on Earth.—
Samuel Badman,
The Conversation,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Dispersal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispersal. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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