Example Sentences

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I think that would have diffused it immediately.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2018

However, in one fell swoop, chemical and materials titan DuPont may have diffused an aggressive campaign run by hedge fund Trian Management and also impressed its shareholders.

From Forbes • Feb. 5, 2015

I hope that you and your husband were able to talk about why this incident was so jarring and that he acknowledges a few words to his father could have diffused the cold-cut contretemps.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

It is evident that by long cultivation soils gradually have diffused through them something that proves inimical to the disease that produces stump foot.

From Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop by Gregory, James John Howard

The poems which he had hitherto written, however they might have diffused his name, had made very little addition to his fortune.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel