dispersal

Example Sentences

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Amid a global biodiversity crisis, birds -- which play a vital role in pollination, seed dispersal and controlling insect populations -- are one of the fastest declining groups.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Officers explain the dispersal notice bans him from the city centre for 48 hours, and say they have confiscated vapes and his balaclava.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

They also denied hearing any dispersal orders or warnings before they were injured.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

“This dispersal across Europe, like an archipelago of power, will complicate our adversaries’ calculus,” Macron said while standing in front of a French nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine at France’s Île Longue base off the Brittany coast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

While Madison's frame of reference was instinctively political, and idealized the dispersal of power naturally checked by the inherent diversity of diffused interest groups, Hamilton’s cast of mind was instinctively economic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis