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dispersing

noun as in repelling

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But, the long, art-filled passageways keep crowds dispersed.

“If you’re a toad on an island and there’s nowhere to disperse to, then you don’t need to invest energy into getting these long gangly legs that let you jump straight for days on end, because there’s nowhere to go,” Baxter-Gilbert says.

Before dispersing from the studio, Pohorski and Vondrak estimated they had between 50 and 60 percent of the voice over work finalized.

If you see a house with a line of six families in front of it, it’s probably best to come back later after the crowd has dispersed.

A few weeks ago, while showing off the new Echo, Tom Taylor, Amazon senior vice president of Alexa, told Fortune that one of the reasons for the Echo’s redesign was to allow sound to better disperse through a room.

From Fortune

The new government would have no more success in dispersing the Euromaidan “Security Patrol” than the Yanukovych government did.

The solution of dispersing the remedy in a giant cloud above the city is exactly from The Amazing Spider-Man.

Security sources say the children provide a serious logistical challenge to their efforts at dispersing the sit-in.

This time, instead of dispersing the crowd, the police response swelled its ranks exponentially.

They walked in silence until we came to Broadway, where a dozen or so police officers were dispersing a crowd of some sort.

The British succeeded in dispersing the boats with the baggage belonging to his command, and captured 12 of them.

He remains a while in peaceful quiet; the morning sunbeams, the dispersing mists, and lovely flowers seem to pay tribute to him.

While they were thus mocking me Black Hoof appeared, moving with great dignity, and dispersing my tormentors with a gesture.

In one grand point he, however, succeeded, that of annihilating or dispersing the British legion.

In several places the commissioners and the guards had difficulty in dispersing the crowd which surrounded us.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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