dispersal
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To be sure, the president and the executive branch are charged with lawfully implementing congressional directives about the dispersal of appropriated funds.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
About half of the arrests were people who remained on the Peninsula after police issued a dispersal order, authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
"Stress essentially leads to sexual reproduction, and when that happens, we can see a massive increase in dispersal distances as animals attempt to colonise new areas due to an increase in competition."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
Human rights group Amnesty International has "strongly" condemned the arrests of "peaceful protesters" following what it called a "violent dispersal".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Thus, farmers selected from among individual plants on the basis not only of perceptible qualities like size and taste, but also of invisible features like seed dispersal mechanisms, germination inhibition, and reproductive biology.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Academic Vocabulary, Literary Terms, and Vocabulary from Readings, Unit 5
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