diffuse

If it's present, that strongly suggests the signal is not a diffuse background but arises from specific, relatively nearby binaries.

Profits from AI will likely be diffused among many companies and countries, unlike the concentrated profits of the smartphone era.

I’d had people over in college, but those gatherings had a kind of beautiful chaos to them — less expectations, diffused by more group effort.

Hazy winter sunlight may scatter or diffuse, lowering intensity without entirely blocking sunshine, which instruments still record as sunshine hours.

The image in the pop-out is a diffused blue cloud with a bright white centre.