How to Use diffusion in a Sentence

diffusion

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  • The diffusion of seed sources is the norm in the business.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
  • But in the case of the bismuth crystal, there is no diffusion.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The first person in the social diffusion chain told the next person about the articles, the second told the third, and so on.
    — Filippo Menczer, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2020
  • And then by diffusion propagates through the atria, and then from the atria goes to the AV node which is the only part that connects the ventricles from the atria.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • The currents create pores in the embryos, and the gene editing agent enters by diffusion.
    — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 22 May 2017
  • But what looked to some like the magnanimous diffusion of progress looked to others like theft.
    — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • And that is why the geographic diffusion of tech will change the industry at its very core.
    — Steve Case, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • Posen confirmed that both his namesake line, House of Z, and diffusion line Z Spoke, had shuttered.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Others, like The North Face and Arc’teryx, have both developed stylish diffusion lines.
    — Samuel Hine, GQ, 14 Feb. 2018
  • One reason that QAnon is so hard to track is its diffusion across so many online platforms.
    — Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase and Tim Lister, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
  • This had the effect of making the water more viscous, which slowed the diffusion of the activator.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 May 2018
  • The test compared active flow cells to those with passive diffusion.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • This would aid the diffusion of new ideas and create an incentive for struggling places to help themselves.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Today, the apps are much better, thanks to diffusion models.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • That water then dissolves the salt on the surface of the meat and, through diffusion, the two re-enter the meat, seasoning the chicken thoroughly.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2021
  • That Mikhail also owned his Night, from 1880, might speak to his diffusion but also to his catholicity.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Our perception of diffusion has to do with the coarseness of our measurements.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
  • Product licenses and a ready-to-wear diffusion-line called 1992 (named after the year the line was established) were trials to more cash.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The grass plants self-organize unevenly and hence draw water unevenly to their roots and through diffusion in the sandy soils.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
  • The reason for this slow diffusion is poor performance.
    — Gary Smith, Quartz, 4 June 2021
  • But the growth, those incremental fractions of a percent, and the rate of diffusion of innovation was very, very small.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2021
  • How cells make sense of these diffusion gradients has always been a mystery.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2019
  • Chapter five describes the pattern of the diffusion of technology with a detailed case study of the growth of the electrical market.
    — David A. Teich, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • What hasn’t always been true, though, is the diffusion of talent across the running-back and wide-receiver positions.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 4 July 2018
  • Comfort comes from a breathable polyurethane (PU) footbed, a cushioned midsole, and a shock diffusion plate that helps protect the more delicate instep area of the foot.
    — Bob Beacham, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Richardson then went on to study the diffusion of gases through the atmosphere; his work was used to study the diffusion patterns of poison gases.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
  • The ubiquity came from diffusion by the marine layer, and the wan desaturation was probably from the height of the cloud.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Is Erlanger the first bride whose wedding has spawned multiple diffusion lines?
    — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2022
  • PMIs are a diffusion index with over 50 indicating month-over-month growth and under 50 indicating month-over-month contraction.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • This will also lower the concentration of the metal in the nearby solution, which will favor the diffusion of additional metal ions into the location, meaning that the fluid itself doesn't need to keep circulating past the same spot.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024

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