diffusely

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Activated Ras mutant epithelial cells, which would normally be eliminated into the lumen, instead infiltrated diffusely into the tissue to form highly invasive cancerous tumors.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2023

There’s the throbbing one that hangs around diffusely for hours and produces pain only when I focus on it, like a pang of guilt.

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

When you are alive, you're not alive diffusely, you're alive in a body with a perimeter, with a limit.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2021

Each method is grim for the environment where metals are often scattered diffusely throughout the rock.

From The Verge • Dec. 5, 2019

She had died in 1958, at the age of thirty-seven, from diffusely metastatic ovarian cancer—an illness ultimately linked to mutations in genes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee