be diffuse
Example Sentences
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For the more intangible cultural communities lost — like the music studios, rehearsal rooms and artists’ homes burned in both fires — recovery will be diffuse.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
Pain originating in the abdominal wall typically can be isolated to a specific spot; it is often overlooked and mistaken for visceral pain, which originates deeper in the abdomen and tends to be diffuse.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021
One struggle of emerging from such a quick-moving scene is that influence can be diffuse.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2015
In a way it's harder, because the crowd's more likely to be diffuse, coming in and out.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2013
In the former case, to take up much of a great man's time is to take a liberty; in the latter, to be diffuse is to be too familiar.
From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by Routledge, George
