Ed Sheeran

Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

English Musician

Cesare Beccaria

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Italian Judge

Martin Rees

In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

British Scientist

Bernardo Bertolucci

I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.

Italian Writer

Robert Wyatt

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

Steven Seagal

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

American Actor

Romany Malco

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

Elliott Carter

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

American Composer

Antony Jay

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

British Writer

Mary Helen Bowers

Making fitness a priority will energize you, make you look and feel better, and help diffuse stress.

American Dancer

Use 'diffuse' to describe things spread over physical spaces, like light or smell.

Physical Spread

'Diffuse' also explains the spread of intangible things, like ideas or trends.

Not Just Physical

The adjective form is neutral, it doesn't imply if being spread out is good or bad.

Neutral Connotation

The verb 'diffuse' suggests a slow and steady spreading, not a sudden one.

Gradual Process

'Diffuse' can be used figuratively, like spreading influence or calm in a group.

Figurative Use

Use this form to describe communication or thoughts that lack clarity or focus.

Lack of Clarity

This usage often has a negative connotation, suggesting confusion or ineffectiveness.

Potential Negativity

'Diffuse' can mean to reduce tension or danger, often in social or political contexts.

Conflict Resolution

It also metaphorically describes creating peace, like 'diffusing' anger.

Metaphoric Peace

Don't confuse 'diffuse' with 'defuse'; 'defuse' means to make something less dangerous.

Not 'Defuse'

 The advantages derived from peace diffuse themselves far and wide, and reach great numbers, while in war, if anything turns out happily, the advantage redounds only to a few, and those unworthy of reaping it. One man's safety is owing to the destruction of another. One man's prize is derived from the plunder of another.

Steven Pinker and...

 we are almost back to the pre-World War I level. So there are really two different parts of the story here. One has to do with the total quantity of wealth that we accumulate, and there is nothing bad per se, of course, in accumulating a lot of wealth, and in particular if it is more diffuse

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 how many people become entangled in this information cascade and so on. And what we did in this paper was we compared the spread of true news to the spread of false news. And here's what we found. We found that false news diffused further, faster, deeper and more broadly than the truth

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 and it diffuses water into the magma-filled mantle. That lowers the magma's melting point and makes it rise into the overlying North American plate. From a subterranean chamber, the magma travels upwards and erupts along a chain of volcanos. Magma still deep underground slowly cools,

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 And yet, for some reason, if somebody conducts 10 studies but only publishes the five that give the result that they want, we don't consider that to be research misconduct. And when that responsibility is diffused between a whole network of researchers, academics,

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 But mechanical ventilators take over the process, getting oxygen into the body when the respiratory system cannot. These machines can bypass constricted airways, and deliver highly oxygenated air to help damaged lungs diffuse more oxygen.

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 and I treat each one of those sections like a small still life. So for example, if I was photographing the eye of the insect, which is normally quite smooth and dome-shaped, then I'd use a light source that is large and soft and diffuse,

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 have observed that normally Omega wolves instigate play in an effort to diffuse pack tension maitake was good at this and when she died the other wolves lost the spirit to play another indication of their change behavior is the way they

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 of all monkeys the gossipy banter can sound to scientists like sentences with words or even names for each other most agree it's often used to diffuse tension

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 application the same message can be diffused simultaneously as an MMS such that all these persons and the area have the chance to access to the information

Diffuse

Spread out over a large area, not concentrated.

To spread something or move it around a large area.

Not thinking clearly or expressing something clearly.

Usage tips

To make a bad or tense situation less severe.

Physical Spread

Not Just Physical

Neutral Connotation

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