diffuse

An attempt to detonate or diffuse the bomb failed, so Officer Brian Murray and three others were lowered into the crater.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Service providers will face more stress and “outreach teams will become less efficient as clients become more geographically diffuse and harder to find,” it said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Relying on a diffuse group of token holders bolstered Polymarket’s argument that it was an offshore platform outside the scope of U.S. regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Nutrients must travel through cells, proteins need to fold correctly, and molecules constantly diffuse through watery environments.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2026

For a while I saw Faxe’s profile rigid as pale stone in a diffuse dust of light.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The physical act of twirling noodles while discussing something as monumental as coming out diffuses the tension just enough for honesty to survive.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

“Staying in the boat diffuses the anger in the room,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

She discovered that while gadolinium diffuses everywhere, the diamond nanoparticles stayed in the blood vessels, didn't leak out and later shone brightly in the MRI, just as they had done in the gelatin capsules.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

Dunst diffuses the moment by adopting an exaggerated Valley girl sing-song, “I basically fell in love with Cailee and I was like, ‘She’s the best, you need to work with her.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

The square of sunshine moves, diffuses, grows faint yellow.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Last year, a device weighing 500kg was found and diffused near Gare du Nord in Paris, where rail workers were putting up a new bridge over railway lines.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

On “Quotidien,” the audience is seated in a circle around the stars, which calls for the studio lights to be spread out around them, creating a softer, more diffused effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

Xu and team argue that any systems breakthrough or efficiency gains are diffused quickly across the ecosystem.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 16, 2026

“Oprah’s Favorite Things was a phenomenon because of how trusted Oprah was, so it really is that same phenomenon, just diffused across the creator ecosystem.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025

They diffused and melted Janie, the room and the world into one comprehension.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

To oversee this more complex economy, reformers turned to specialized bodies of experts and—echoing the founders’ instinct for diffusing power—insulated them from politics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Participants will be working on shared language for annexes covering child protection, AI security and governance and diffusing AI through economies -- especially to small and medium firms.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Every time you say, “Let them,” even if it’s after the outburst, you’re still diffusing the emotion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

"These companies begin by diffusing trust in the medical and pharmaceutical industry, advertising themselves as a safer option, highlighting how GLP-1 medications are more dangerous and encouraging using ‘natural’ alternatives."

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

The jolt spread lower and lower, into his stomach, like droplets of blood diffusing into water.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner