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Tommy’s presence helps push Valerie to acknowledge Mickey’s absence and moves her to gently face it, finally scatter his ashes and let him go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

They were travelling to the city to scatter the ashes of Rose's late husband, Pete.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Under typical conditions, Po and So waves form when P and S waves scatter repeatedly through layered structures inside an oceanic plate.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Serve them by the bowlful with cold drinks, or scatter them over tomato soup, chili, Caesar salad or roasted vegetables.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

I wish I could blow on a dandelion puffball and see its dust scatter.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

Dust in the disk scatters light from the central star, creating an effect similar to fog.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

This is because the sunlight it reflects reaches us through a more dense part of the Earth's atmosphere which scatters blue and violet light, and means only the redder hues reach us.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

By comparing the patterns in forward- and back-scattered light, they could estimate each particle's size and its refractive index, which describes how strongly light bends or scatters when it passes through a material.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025

Clayton Kershaw scatters six hits and gives up one earned run, and the Dodgers’ offense finally shows life in a 7-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

Only a handful of sparkling silver stars that she scatters across the velvet-covered table, reading them like runes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Its four- to eight-bedroom villas are scattered among fig and pomegranate trees and gardens designed by landscape architect Madison Cox.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

As a result, most of the light entering one end can reach the other without being absorbed, scattered, or otherwise lost.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

"Over the last four weeks, I have transported 1,000 small straw bales from the fields and scattered it around".

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

He stresses that the film is not his family's story, but "there's bits of me" scattered throughout its characters.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Though I could not fight them, I yowled so ferociously that the courtroom crowd—traitors, all of them!—hissed and scattered.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

I’ve topped bowls with butter-soaked, cardamom-dusted sourdough croutons, a simple scattering of pistachios, granola and even dried coconut flakes, and each has worked beautifully.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Using advanced inelastic neutron scattering techniques, the researchers observed both the positions of atoms within the crystal and how those atoms moved.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

At a media tour earlier this week, the massive Convention Center-scaled space was largely empty, save for dormant cranes, a scattering of workers and the occasional hum of drilling.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Fireworks can frighten animals and send them scattering, but Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets apparently are made of sterner stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Jonathan kicked his pile of twigs and leaves, scattering them in a circle.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret