Example Sentences

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Participants will be working on shared language for annexes covering child protection, AI security and governance and diffusing AI through economies -- especially to small and medium firms.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Every time you say, “Let them,” even if it’s after the outburst, you’re still diffusing the emotion.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

With that key narrative element out in the open, the movie’s beats are all too easy to predict, diffusing what little humor there was left to garner from its meager amount of twists.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2025

Once there was a playful post-argument duel with water guns - Draper's way of light-heartedly diffusing the tension - with his coach in a American hotel corridor.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

Like sugar diffusing out of a cube in a cup of coffee, they are present at high concentration on one end of the egg, and low concentration on the other.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee