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Derivatives and securitizations, whose volumes remain high, diffuse risk through the financial system but also link entities in daisy chains of risk.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Images collected by New Horizons in 2015 and 2016 showed that its northern region contains city-sized geologic convection cells separated by thin dark lines and broader, more diffuse dark patches.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The production’s adventurousness, traversing every corner of Brad Bentz’s scenic design, can have a diffuse effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

It takes something diffuse — access to a vast collection of things you do not personally have to own — and renders it in the language of a grocery receipt.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

However, the particular spectral lines observed are often characteristic of very thin, diffuse gas, and not the astonishingly high density that must prevail near black holes.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The physical act of twirling noodles while discussing something as monumental as coming out diffuses the tension just enough for honesty to survive.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

“Staying in the boat diffuses the anger in the room,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

She discovered that while gadolinium diffuses everywhere, the diamond nanoparticles stayed in the blood vessels, didn't leak out and later shone brightly in the MRI, just as they had done in the gelatin capsules.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

Dunst diffuses the moment by adopting an exaggerated Valley girl sing-song, “I basically fell in love with Cailee and I was like, ‘She’s the best, you need to work with her.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

The square of sunshine moves, diffuses, grows faint yellow.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

Xu and team argue that any systems breakthrough or efficiency gains are diffused quickly across the ecosystem.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 16, 2026

Draper quickly diffused what could have been a tricky encounter, showing his superior quality and experience from the start.

From BBC ● May 31, 2025

“He’s sort of like a mini-bulldog out there,” Roberts said, noting how — like Hershiser — Stone only seemed to seek strikeouts when runners were on base, or a jam needed to be diffused.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

While Madison's frame of reference was instinctively political, and idealized the dispersal of power naturally checked by the inherent diversity of diffused interest groups, Hamilton’s cast of mind was instinctively economic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“The S&P and mega cap complex have felt strangely heavy without a great fundamental reason. Worth keeping in the back of the mind that some leverage/carry may simply be diffusing out of the system.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

To oversee this more complex economy, reformers turned to specialized bodies of experts and—echoing the founders’ instinct for diffusing power—insulated them from politics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Participants will be working on shared language for annexes covering child protection, AI security and governance and diffusing AI through economies -- especially to small and medium firms.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Every time you say, “Let them,” even if it’s after the outburst, you’re still diffusing the emotion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

She should be diffusing and scrunching and, if possible, sleeping on a satin pillowcase.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell