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

But raising it, he placed the strong helmet upon his head; and the helmet, crested with horse-hair, shone like a star; and the golden tufts which Vulcan had diffused thick around the cone were shaken.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

Time, which effaces every occasional impression, I find gradually dispelling the pleasing pensiveness which the melancholy event, the subject of my last, had diffused over my mind.

From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Foster, Hannah Webster