be diffuse

While there may be some incidents of violence if he's taken off the ballot, she points out that they will be diffuse, making it much easier for law enforcement to deal with than a centralized attack like we saw on January 6.

And yet, as advocates in the Senate and White House understood, this is one kept promise whose benefits will be concentrated and visible, to debtors, and whose costs will be diffuse and nontransparent, to taxpayers.

The good news is that a decentralized approach to vaccine mandates would be much harder for conservatives to rage against, since the targets would be diffuse.

People might obtain lead testing around their home with a portable X-ray gun before purchasing or remodeling a home, but sources of lead contamination can be diffuse, and in many cases exposure is only detected with a blood test after lead has been absorbed.

Pain originating in the abdominal wall typically can be isolated to a specific spot; it is often overlooked and mistaken for visceral pain, which originates deeper in the abdomen and tends to be diffuse.