diffuse
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Security guards and family members quickly intervened to diffuse the situation.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Service providers will face more stress and “outreach teams will become less efficient as clients become more geographically diffuse and harder to find,” it said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Futures markets later sprang up to help diffuse risk and smooth over volatility.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
It defers it to a moment when Iran’s alternative financial infrastructure is more mature, more diffuse, and more difficult to address than it is today.
From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026
Guilt rises in me hard and fast and I feel my head bobbing up and down reflexively, trying to diffuse a situation that’s going downhill fast.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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