be diffuse
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For the more intangible cultural communities lost — like the music studios, rehearsal rooms and artists’ homes burned in both fires — recovery will be diffuse.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
Pain originating in the abdominal wall typically can be isolated to a specific spot; it is often overlooked and mistaken for visceral pain, which originates deeper in the abdomen and tends to be diffuse.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021
One struggle of emerging from such a quick-moving scene is that influence can be diffuse.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2015
In a way it's harder, because the crowd's more likely to be diffuse, coming in and out.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2013
But I will not be diffuse in the description of objects which have been so often described, but devote the following lines which my paper will contain to more important matters.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Darlow, Thomas Herbert