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By contrast, northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and north Wales will have a breezy day with sunny spells and a scattering of showers which could be heavy in the west.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The agency said federal regulations allow sunroofs to be made with tempered glass, which must break into gravel-like pieces, or laminated glass, where pieces stay stuck to a plastic interlayer instead of scattering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

This phenomenon, called Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering, is already known from conventional optical fibers.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

A police pursuit early Wednesday through Los Angeles ended in dramatic fashion when the fleeing vehicle smashed into a row of parked cars, injuring the driver and scattering glass and debris across the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

He pointed to a scattering of cones at the base of a pine tree, each one gnawed to the core like an apple.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Cavernous home arenas, with scatterings of spectators at most, emphasize the emptiness.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 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