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diffusion

[dih-fyoo-zhuhn] / dɪˈfju ʒən /


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Texas is showing faster AI diffusion than tech strongholds in California and Washington state, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Now, as AI comes of age, the rates of diffusion could shape the global economic order in years to come.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The economists’ conclusion is that if Warsh and other Federal Open Market Committee members start putting greater weight on diffusion, it runs the risk of reacting to false signals.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"The result is fewer firms growing to global size and slower diffusion of new technologies across the economy."

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

As with the agent code-named REST, the diffusion method was Fuchs's area of expertise.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

"If countries are found to be significantly and persistently abusing red notices and diffusions, then they should be suspended from the system for a period of time," says Keith.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

As a member of the British trio Cream, he transformed simple blues lines into brilliant horizontal diffusions of sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The inmates we found pious, sensible, and excellent persons, who had devoted many years among their heathen neighbors in philanthropic diffusions of the Gospel.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

The author exhibits the result of thoughtful study in his expressed views upon the mooted questions of racial origins and diffusions.

From Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by John Wesley Powell




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