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Asking if someone is a member is “actually the wrong question,” she said, “based on a misunderstanding about how ideas and social movements work. The NAR is incredibly diffuse by design.”

Minor adjustments in form and using props can alter the level of difficulty of an exercise or diffuse pain.

Culture has been said to exert a pervasive but diffuse influence on actions, providing the underlying assumptions of an entire way of life.

As Diner pointed out, "there are no doubt individuals on the left —also and maybe more diverse and diffuse — who see Jews as inherently and fundamentally problematic and might be understood to engage in antisemitism."

Once there was a playful post-argument duel with water guns - Draper's way of light-heartedly diffusing the tension - with his coach in a American hotel corridor.