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diffusion

[dih-fyoo-zhuhn] / dɪˈfju ʒən /


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The first is the diffusion of knowledge about how to build cutting-edge AIs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Remember, the future arrives via diffusion, at a different pace for everyone.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

"How to respond to the rapid development and diffusion of generative AI is the biggest 360-degree challenge for today’s news leaders and policymakers," Egan wrote.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

“The U.S. is focused on achieving AGI, while China is focused on diffusion and applications of AI into the rest of their economy — manufacturing, humanoid robotics, all aspects of the internet of things.”

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

In mid-1944, Groves addressed the problem of K-25’s disappointing output by scaling back the gaseous diffusion program.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

"If countries are found to be significantly and persistently abusing red notices and diffusions, then they should be suspended from the system for a period of time," says Keith.

From BBC Jan. 25, 2026

As a member of the British trio Cream, he transformed simple blues lines into brilliant horizontal diffusions of sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The inmates we found pious, sensible, and excellent persons, who had devoted many years among their heathen neighbors in philanthropic diffusions of the Gospel.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

The author exhibits the result of thoughtful study in his expressed views upon the mooted questions of racial origins and diffusions.

From Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by Powell, John Wesley




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