distracted

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On that same solo album, Lynch covers “The Ballad of Hollis Brown,” using distorted vocals, diffracted keyboards and plodding beats to create a disorienting effect.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

In this form of investigation, x-rays are directed at the object of interest and the angles at which the rays are diffracted tell the researchers the object's arrangement of atoms.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Light passing by these struts gets diffracted, resulting in more spikes, each one perpendicular to the strut itself.

From The Verge • Jul. 15, 2022

The first complete structures of proteins were determined, starting in the 1950s, using a technique in which X-ray beams are fired at crystallized proteins and the diffracted light translated into a protein’s atomic coordinates.

From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2020

But whatever the facts may be, in this respect the statement in the text of the impossibility of representing diffracted color in painting is equally true.

From The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 by Ruskin, John