had diffused
- past perfect of diffuse.
Example Sentences
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He found that a term for maize had diffused from the Chibchan language into Mayan languages, further supporting the idea of a Chibchan origin of maize.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
By 2002, once-hot fusion cuisine had diffused into Ming Tsai’s agreeably bland Food Network programming and the sort of Chinese chicken salad with fried wontons you might find at the airport.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2012
He sees it as something of a happy medium between Fascist realism and "the form which cubism had diffused to the point of meaninglessness."
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Buddhism tended to mingle with Taoism and other indigenous ideas, the many translations of Indian works and the increasing intercourse between Chinese and Hindus had diffused a knowledge of its true tenets and practice.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
Their language or their silence equally discover their contempt for the growing sect, which in their time had diffused itself over the Roman empire.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart
