dispersed
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"Officers attended and the crowd dispersed shortly afterwards," a force spokesperson added.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
“There’s been a lot of that money that still has not been dispersed, and there has been quite an active pushback from smaller growers on how that money is being spent,” Corden told Salon.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
It was not until the late 19th century that the historical value of the original plants was recognized, and the needle-in-a-haystack task of identifying Lewis’s dispersed samples gathered pace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
One reason is the methane is more dispersed and satellites’ sensors have trouble picking it out over a large area.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
When the matter was closed, when the sentence was passed and the congregation dispersed, a ruthless youthful forgetting, a willful erasing, protected her well into her teens.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing dispersed
Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - Jan. 16, 2013
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"One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia, List 10
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