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Two perform wheelies on electric scooters while another uses a long stick to scatter rubbish.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

Finish: Rest at least 15 minutes, then scatter with scallions or chives.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

That disruption can scatter electrons and erase some of the performance gains engineers are trying to achieve.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

People began to scatter in all directions for fear that Cleo and the entire turning machine would fall on top of them.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

She first scatters AA-size batteries, pens and scissors on the table, and walks back to the nearby control rig to make the robot arms place each one inside the tray of a desk organizer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

This is because the sunlight it reflects reaches us through a more dense part of the Earth's atmosphere which scatters blue and violet light, and means only the redder hues reach us.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

One of UV-C light's most valuable traits is how strongly it scatters in the atmosphere, which makes it especially useful for non-line-of-sight communication.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026

Gas between stars scatters the signals, spreading them out and causing slight delays before they reach Earth.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 6, 2026

Everyone but Fiona scatters, and he smiles at me and says, “It’s great to see you out here. And it’s great to see you in uniform.”

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

More than 2,000 hydropower workers were scattered across dams, riverside camps, underground power houses and miles-long tunnels when the flood hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Whether the 61-year-old’s return to tennis as an éminence grise can herd the sport’s notoriously scattered stakeholders together and strengthen the players’ position is the question du jour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

But the company did not end up broadcasting Thursday’s event, leaving investors to glean information through scattered sources.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

AFP footage showed the overturned bus and its wreckage scattered along the roadside.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

However, scattered throughout the dark depths were shallow areas: sandbars, reefs, islands just under the waves.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

The agency said federal regulations allow sunroofs to be made with tempered glass, which must break into gravel-like pieces, or laminated glass, where pieces stay stuck to a plastic interlayer instead of scattering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Sunlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere is scattered, with shorter blue wavelengths scattering more easily, while more of the longer wavelength red light reached the Moon.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

A police pursuit early Wednesday through Los Angeles ended in dramatic fashion when the fleeing vehicle smashed into a row of parked cars, injuring the driver and scattering glass and debris across the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Boron arsenide experiences unusually weak phonon scattering, which allows wave-based heat transport to continue even at room temperature.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

On the day of Zeus’s festival he drove it furiously through the town, scattering at the same time firebrands and shouting to the people to worship him because he was Zeus the Thunderer.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton