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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

Images collected by New Horizons in 2015 and 2016 showed that its northern region contains city-sized geologic convection cells separated by thin dark lines and broader, more diffuse dark patches.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

It takes something diffuse — access to a vast collection of things you do not personally have to own — and renders it in the language of a grocery receipt.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

First I thought of Spanish rock star and longtime Los Angeles resident Enrique Bunbury, who himself traffics in the diffuse territories of the ominous and esoteric.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The light from the opening in the roof was becoming diffuse and gray.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

“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

I block the scene so when we kiss, faces around us blur, a filtered lens diffuses the light, and a smoke machine blows gauzy wisps of gray across the floor.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

Minnesota’s missing treasurer produced a costly lesson about what happens when financial authority is diffused and accountability disappears.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

“Oprah’s Favorite Things was a phenomenon because of how trusted Oprah was, so it really is that same phenomenon, just diffused across the creator ecosystem.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025

I reached the opposite end of the room where linen curtains diffused sunlight around the final bed.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“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

Add to this growing critical mineral-processing capacity, vast AI training data generated by India’s large population, and the potential role of Indian IT companies in diffusing AI to less technologically advanced economies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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

The old-man sat on when the last plate was emptied, lost in his own world, his peaceful stillness diffusing through the little cabin so that the watchers sat graven in their places.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford