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Recent Examples of diffusion Earlier this week, the Commerce Department officially rescinded the Biden administration’s AI diffusion rule that would have placed caps on chip sales to most countries around the world. Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 15 May 2025 The decision to scrap the AI diffusion rule, on the other hand, is a helpful one in the short run — reflected by Nvidia’s 3% pop in the final hour of trading Wednesday. Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 8 May 2025 The trip coincides with the enforcement deadline for the AI diffusion rule—a regulation introduced in late 2024 aimed at preventing sensitive chip technology from reaching adversarial nations or being rerouted through Gulf countries. Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025 Three criteria – depth, diffusion, and duration – need to be met individually to some degree to formally identify a recession, according to the NBER. Rachel Barber, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diffusion
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repetition
Noun
  • The dog learns through repetition and rewards to associate smell with a person and follow the scent, building up in distance and the scent’s duration.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025
  • And after 46 days competing, the contest – the largest online chess game ever held, according to Chess.com – ended in a draw after 32 moves when the public forced a threefold repetition in a queen endgame to earn a half-point for either side.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 21 May 2025

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“Diffusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diffusion. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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