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diffuse

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  • v  move outward
  • v  spread or diffuse through
  • v  cause to become widely known
  • s  spread out; not concentrated in one place
    a large diffuse organization
  • a  (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
  • s  lacking conciseness
    a diffuse historical novel

  • One senses that his first book, Dreams from My Father, was meant to diffuse some of this vulnerability.
  • Much of that success comes from a diffuse, hydra-headed power structure that has rebounded from repeated attempts to put it down.
  • The fringes of a suburb like Riverside in Southern California, where housing prices have fallen more than 20% since the bust began, could be too diffuse to thrive in a future where .
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  • Jeff Bzdelik in Forbes
    It was just kind of a slow death,Bzdelik said. "When you're not making shots, your energy starts to diffuse. It slowly starts to get away from you."
  • Carlos Pena in American Chronicle
    It was just appropriate,Pena said. "We could ignore (the losing) and not pay attention to it, or we could face it, and, all of a sudden, you diffuse the bomb. You kind of like shrink the giant. You see his shadow, but when you actually...
  • Kevin Garnett in Ninemsn
    This is where they are comfortable. They have a lot of confidence playing in this building and we have to somehow, some way diffuse that,Garnett said. "It gives us a lot of confidence to know we can shoot 30-something percent and almost...

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