scattered
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Gallery visitors were careful not to step on the sprawling assemblage of photographs, drawings and artifacts scattered across the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Those that cause strong ionization leave continuous, sharply defined lines, while particles that produce weaker ionization may appear as scattered, disconnected dots.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
The longer wavelength red and orange colours are not scattered as readily so pass through to our eyes.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
"The film has a few scattered giggles, but it's dawdling and cumbersome, and far less 'relevant' than it thinks," read a review from the Hollywood trade publication Variety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Though I could not fight them, I yowled so ferociously that the courtroom crowd—traitors, all of them!—hissed and scattered.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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