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At a media tour earlier this week, the massive Convention Center-scaled space was largely empty, save for dormant cranes, a scattering of workers and the occasional hum of drilling.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Fireworks can frighten animals and send them scattering, but Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets apparently are made of sterner stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

These high velocity impacts shattered enormous volumes of rock beneath the surface while vaporizing material and scattering molten rock across the landscape.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

Though it was Gibson's hit in the 19th over, which had spectators scattering for cover in Headingley's second tier, that was the highlight of Saturday, Gibson does not appear keen to disagree.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Sirens echo through the neighborhood, and the crowd instantly thins out, with people scattering everywhere.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

The results range from scatterings of notes in a strange tempo to fully composed ambient music.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022

The mauled scatterings of boxes and packages along the train tracks look like the crime scene from a Christmas Eve Santa sleigh-jacking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

The cast’s expressiveness, incidentally, helps ensure that the ample scatterings of Spanish will be clear to those who don’t speak the language.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021

On one level, Arisen My Senses sounds like chaos: crashing rhythms and overlapping voices that render the lyrics largely incomprehensible, alongside unpredictable scatterings of harp and explosions of electronics.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2019

The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury