as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
a diffuse speech that took a great deal of time to make a very small point
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Recent Examples of diffuse
Martha Gimbel,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
Lowbrow sources such as Sunday funnies, B movies, and advertisements are present but are more diffuse, rarely coalescing into obvious quotation.
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Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
22 June 2026
Peroxide doesn’t have time to diffuse into the middle before it’s done.
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Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
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Adjective
Whereas the costs of deficits are diffuse, the costs of policies that close the deficit are acutely clear only to those affected.
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Martha Gimbel,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
Lowbrow sources such as Sunday funnies, B movies, and advertisements are present but are more diffuse, rarely coalescing into obvious quotation.
—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Verb
First, diffuse the situation with some kindness.
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Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
22 June 2026
Peroxide doesn’t have time to diffuse into the middle before it’s done.
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Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diffuse
Adjective
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Honeysuckle The warm, heady, floral scent of honeysuckle, which is strongest at dusk, is instantly recognizable, and the romantically rambling vines and tubular blooms make the climbing varieties cottage-garden classics.
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Vocals have an offhand nonchalance instead of hogging the spotlight, melodies sneak up on you rather than announce themselves, and the guitars avoid crunchy riffs and overdriven twang in favor of tart rambling and clean supporting chords.
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On the solstice, the first goal was to clear trash that had found its way onto the orchard, then form makeshift berms out of rocks dispersed around the space.
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The San Jose Police Department has declared an unlawful assembly and in the name of the People of the State of California, order all those assembled at Santa Clara St and Almaden Ave to immediately disperse, which means to break up this assembly.
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In the clip, the robot performs exaggerated, erratic movements, raising its arms into a martial arts-style fighting stance before lunging toward people around it.
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There were new rules announced pre-tournament to minimise timewasting via exaggerated injuries or via substitutions.
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Better-than-expected job gains helped to dispel fears of a recession.
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And, in truth, the first Round of 32 match didn’t do much to dispel that theory yesterday.
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The great speculators became talkative and communicative or dull, sullen, silent, and peevish.
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Doing this kind of work with other talkative animals, such as dolphins, would be much more difficult.
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In front of a predominantly Brazilian crowd and with the haze of a pre-match pyrotechnic display still dissipating, Norway seemed to leap out to a lead in the first few minutes with a goal by Patrick Berg, but it was quickly ruled offside.
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The Gen5 version adds vapor chamber cooling to dissipate heat more effectively during intensive workloads.
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But the highest-value layer will be people who combine financial fluency with the kind of strategic, communicative intelligence that helps the whole organization make better decisions.
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The great speculators became talkative and communicative or dull, sullen, silent, and peevish.
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Scientists have long grouped sharks together as a natural evolutionary unit, meaning every shark species shares a common ancestor that rays and skates do not.
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The PlayStation 5 Pro is a more powerful spin on the vanilla PS5, thanks to ray tracing and AI upscaling that give games a visual boost.
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“Diffuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diffuse. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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