diffuse
Example Sentences
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Guilt rises in me hard and fast and I feel my head bobbing up and down reflexively, trying to diffuse a situation that’s going downhill fast.
From Literature
With 40 million taxpayers among 970 million voters, the middle class is large enough to bear the fiscal burden of the state but too diffuse to command its attention.
From BBC
On “Quotidien,” the audience is seated in a circle around the stars, which calls for the studio lights to be spread out around them, creating a softer, more diffused effect.
“My worry is about whether the benefits of AI will diffuse to all people.”
The light came from within it, a cold-glowing green light with yellow edges that diffused the shape, making it change and grow as I watched.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
