disperse
Example Sentences
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If a serpent’s prey happens to have seeds in their cheeks, “they will disperse those seeds, acting as nature’s gardeners, pooping out the seeds in a little pile of fertilizer,” Taylor said.
From Los Angeles Times
“We were trying to focus more on the Indo-Pacific. And we already had a pretty resilient, dispersed posture across the region.”
"If it's been dispersed to four different sites, then you're talking about a whole different" level of complexity.
From BBC
A relatively new missile-toting unit of Marines, based on Okinawa, is designed to fight in a contested littoral battlespace by dispersing, concealing themselves, and taking out enemy ships and aircraft.
The issue is that returns could end up dispersed, meaning one stock could crater and another could rebound spectacularly.
From Barron's
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