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Moroccan police made "no serious attempt to try to reduce, disperse or move the mass of people away from the border perimeter", the report said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Patalano said Iran’s proximity to the strait and the ability to disperse small boats, mines and other weapons along its coast make it difficult to eliminate the threat entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Astronomers estimate that the Lion Nebula will eventually disperse in approximately 10,000 years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

According to the Associated Press, Berlin police used water cannons — normally used to disperse protesters — to cool down cheering crowds in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

But as tech talent disperses to the likes of Austin, Texas, that reason may become less important.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

The Eye Spa machine uses a “cold mist atomization process,” Xie said, “that disperses micro-particles of moisture combined with soothing essential oils.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

When you season the crumbs directly, you’re ensuring that flavor disperses evenly throughout the loaf rather than pooling in pockets.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Simple things like the way your body disperses fat, aging, or skin laxity can create asymmetry.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026

The crowd disperses, moving from the big top to the parking lot and beyond, to the edges of the town.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

“That’s a huge lift for some of these small, dispersed jurisdictions to figure out how to use USPS’s portal and submit names.”

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026

The answer isn’t straightforward, in part because its chapters are too dispersed to fit one label.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Rather than modifying the ink with surfactants or chemically altering the particles, they dispersed nanoscale ultra fine bubbles throughout the liquid.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

"You have to shift your perspective from a map of dispersed and isolated islands to one where the ocean itself is the living fabric that binds us all together," she said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

The buildings in the city are tall and close together, but the huts are low- lying and widely dispersed in the middle of the rice fields.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

The rotating forces improved their performance, as they became more adept at dispersing and concealing themselves and using electronic warfare, said the Army official.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"We are on watch for tonight, it's the weekend. We will be dispersing people from the area," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Rather than dispersing evenly in every direction, heat can follow routes determined by the structure of a crystal.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

But as Southern California’s focus shifts to the sweltering heat expected for the day and the rest of the week, an expert noted that soot and particulate matter may not be dispersing normally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

The commercial product usually contains combinations of several chemicals, suspended in a petroleum distillate plus some dispersing agent.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson