as in diffuseness
the use of too many words to express an idea
the author's tendency toward diffusion makes the novel a tedious read
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Recent Examples of diffusion
The committee, in making its recession determination, uses three criteria: depth, diffusion and duration.
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Alicia Wallace, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Three criteria – depth, diffusion, and duration – need to be met individually to some degree in order to formally identify a recession, according to the NBER.
—Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
The data are displayed in an image that is color coded to draw attention to areas of impaired diffusion.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
While image diffusion models add continuous noise to pixel values, text diffusion models can't apply continuous noise to discrete tokens (chunks of text data).
—Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2025
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Alicia Wallace, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Three criteria – depth, diffusion, and duration – need to be met individually to some degree in order to formally identify a recession, according to the NBER.
—Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
The data are displayed in an image that is color coded to draw attention to areas of impaired diffusion.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
While image diffusion models add continuous noise to pixel values, text diffusion models can't apply continuous noise to discrete tokens (chunks of text data).
—Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for diffusion
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“Diffusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diffusion. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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