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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

As the sun went higher and left the eastern sky, the square of sunshine on the wall grew larger and diffuse, and the bright yellow color of early morning was gone.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The glass is screened by adjustable curtains of a high-tech fabric that diffuses and softens the sunlight, making it ideal for viewing the three-dimensional art displayed there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

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

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

“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

By the living room door was a narrow space that ended in the frosted-glass door of the front entrance through which a diffused blood-orange light embossed the beige and olive wallpaper in fiery honeycomb patterns.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

“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 tall trees stood fairly close together, diffusing the sunlight into a greenish glow laced with shadows.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull