spreading

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"Fire whirls burn through crude oil spills nearly twice as fast as in-situ fire pools, potentially giving cleanup crews faster operational and response times to eliminating the oils from spreading," Oran said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

“What began as an AI infrastructure bottleneck is now spreading into hardware margins, device affordability, cloud costs, inflation, and policy,” Kim wrote.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

This suggests the outbreak had been spreading undetected for months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

“So they’re spreading the joy to more countries,” Kuper said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Even across the ocean, the madness seemed to be spreading: the papers said America would enter.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom