How to Use dispersion in a Sentence

dispersion

noun
  • All of those things at the end of the day go back to that manager dispersion.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The music didn't just change based on the space—the dispersion of light, or a breeze through a window.
    — Wired, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Look for an even wider dispersion than usual in these projections.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The result is not unity, but dispersion.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • That dispersion falls in the 97th percentile of the past 30 years.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Access to sports has fragmented with the rise of streaming and dispersion of sports rights.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The team was able to use the dispersion of light to map and measure matter along the pathway of the fast radio bursts.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 June 2025
  • Both walls and ceiling were covered with white zigzag patterns to help sonic dispersion.
    — Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The first thing that jumped out at me was the breadth of sector dispersion among the top ten Best Stocks this month.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 1 July 2025
  • There's also a large dispersion of views around how aggressively the Fed will cut this year.
    — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
  • This dish features high, straight sides and a large surface area that allows for more even heat dispersion between layers.
    — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • These drivers are positioned around the front, sides and rear for optimum all-around dispersion.
    — New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Refraction is the bending of light, while dispersion scatters it.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2025
  • The first step is known as dispersion; the algorithm directs the robots to keep away from one another.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
  • It was found that compression was most successful when the pulses were allowed to stretch through dispersion in the fiber.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2023
  • Dispersion is not bad for serious investors.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026
  • The threat of artillery further drives dispersion, so that companies are often spread over nearly two miles of front.
    — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That's why researchers also look at a value called k, the dispersion factor, which is how much a disease clusters.
    — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
  • These sorts of expeditions are known as dispersion movements.
    — Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
  • When the bugs start arriving, just brush those aromatic leaves to release some of their scent, and the dispersion will begin.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The higher ceiling allows for a wider dispersion between short- and long-term yields, meaning the yield curve can steepen.
    — Daniel Kruger, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • And all this despite the fact that microbial dispersion in this area, due to the wind and to human visitors, is intense.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019
  • And all this despite the fact that microbial dispersion in this area, due to the wind and to human visitors, is intense.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • This extreme dispersion of the opposition has served Macron well.
    — Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The broad indexes have been steady near the flat line and just below record highs, held there by another run of extreme dispersion among groups of stocks.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Also a unique trait of the whitebark pine is that its sole vector of seed dispersion is done by one bird -- the Clark's nutcracker.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 July 2021
  • Hot spots As is often the case with display deformities, the big factor here is heat dispersion.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Because of its size and geographic dispersion, the VA struggles to be good at all things in all places.
    — Phillip Carter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The Taliban counter these advantages through dispersion and hiding among the people.
    — Fox News, 7 Aug. 2019

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