be diffuse
Example Sentences
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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
He is content to give a bare recital of the facts, which crowded upon him and left him no time to be diffuse or ornamental.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
