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However, the benefits of these relationships for average voters tend to be diffuse and realized in the medium-to-long run.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Known as intracluster light, this diffuse glow comes from stars scattered into the spaces between galaxies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Derivatives and securitizations, whose volumes remain high, diffuse risk through the financial system but also link entities in daisy chains of risk.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The production’s adventurousness, traversing every corner of Brad Bentz’s scenic design, can have a diffuse effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The result is that the C11 — an extension — has a more diffuse, jazzy, or impressionistic sound.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

“Staying in the boat diffuses the anger in the room,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

They’re also less likely to be cultivated in complete monocultures than oil palms, which diffuses their impact on surrounding ecosystems.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024

Dunst diffuses the moment by adopting an exaggerated Valley girl sing-song, “I basically fell in love with Cailee and I was like, ‘She’s the best, you need to work with her.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

It borrows an idea from physics that can be used to describe, for instance, how gas diffuses outward.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

The square of sunshine moves, diffuses, grows faint yellow.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

In Mr. Specht’s telling, the great 19th-century concept of “landed democracy” provided “a vision of a radically egalitarian country made possible by widely diffused landownership.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Last year, a device weighing 500kg was found and diffused near Gare du Nord in Paris, where rail workers were putting up a new bridge over railway lines.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Xu and team argue that any systems breakthrough or efficiency gains are diffused quickly across the ecosystem.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 16, 2026

“He’s sort of like a mini-bulldog out there,” Roberts said, noting how — like Hershiser — Stone only seemed to seek strikeouts when runners were on base, or a jam needed to be diffused.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

One plausible source of fast growth is AI-led productivity gains diffusing throughout the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

“The S&P and mega cap complex have felt strangely heavy without a great fundamental reason. Worth keeping in the back of the mind that some leverage/carry may simply be diffusing out of the system.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Participants will be working on shared language for annexes covering child protection, AI security and governance and diffusing AI through economies -- especially to small and medium firms.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Every time you say, “Let them,” even if it’s after the outburst, you’re still diffusing the emotion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

Eleanor wasn't diffusing, but she was using the conditioner Park's mom had given her.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell