scatter
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Tommy’s presence helps push Valerie to acknowledge Mickey’s absence and moves her to gently face it, finally scatter his ashes and let him go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
They were travelling to the city to scatter the ashes of Rose's late husband, Pete.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Crack one egg into each center, then scatter with cubed pancetta, grated pecorino and plenty of black pepper.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Under typical conditions, Po and So waves form when P and S waves scatter repeatedly through layered structures inside an oceanic plate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
My thoughts scatter for a moment, and I glance at the note to read it.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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"These measurements are extremely difficult because carbon is a small and lightweight atom. It scatters very few X-rays, so the signal we needed to measure was quite faint."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
ComSLI relies on a basic physical principle: when light encounters microscopic structures, it scatters in different directions based on their orientation.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 9, 2025
Martinez scatters ceramic roses across the painting, a mordant honorific to past glory and current hopes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
The atmosphere scatters away more short-wave blue light, leaving the longer-wave reddish hues to project upon the Moon.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2025
Out the window, the wind scatters the leaves across the road.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Sunlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere is scattered, with shorter blue wavelengths scattering more easily, while more of the longer wavelength red light reach the Moon.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In dusty streets teeming with men in camouflage and scattered with wrecked military vehicles she scours for scenes of normality to post on the city social media pages.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
“If they’ve got $200,000 scattered in 20 different accounts, that’s different than $1 million in one IRA,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ramírez’s plots, as Mr. Warrick emphasizes, were too scattered and haphazard to force serious political change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Everyone was scattered around the town, buzzing about King Barf and all his soldiers.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Sunlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere is scattered, with shorter blue wavelengths scattering more easily, while more of the longer wavelength red light reach the Moon.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
I’ve topped bowls with butter-soaked, cardamom-dusted sourdough croutons, a simple scattering of pistachios, granola and even dried coconut flakes, and each has worked beautifully.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
That alignment reduces scattering of the heat carrying phonons, allowing thermal energy to move through the crystal much more efficiently.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
At a media tour earlier this week, the massive Convention Center-scaled space was largely empty, save for dormant cranes, a scattering of workers and the occasional hum of drilling.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The glass jar shatters, a sea of black truffles scattering across the floor.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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