diffused

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

From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026

Minnesota’s missing treasurer produced a costly lesson about what happens when financial authority is diffused and accountability disappears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

The heated confrontation between the defensive duo was sparked by the concession of a late goal and diffused by the Gunners' backroom staff.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

I’d had people over in college, but those gatherings had a kind of beautiful chaos to them — less expectations, diffused by more group effort.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2025

Perhaps those cycles of colonization, adaptation, and population explosion were what selected for the Great Leap Forward, which then diffused back westward to Eurasia and Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond