disperse
verb (used with object)
to drive or send off in various directions; scatter.
have dispersed
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present perfectof disperse.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But a new study in Nature, including ASU researchers Curtis Marean, Christopher Campisano, and Jayde Hirniak, suggests that humans also may have dispersed during arid intervals along "blue highways" created by seasonal rivers.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Several hundred kilometres south of Raja-Jooseppi, on the Russian side of the Finnish border crossing at Salla, many of those who wanted to cross now appeared to have dispersed.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
“Do I really need to walk to the park to use the bathroom?” she said, adding that the county should have dispersed the restrooms throughout the community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
It’s unclear whether the wreckage is concentrated in one area or if it’s in smaller pieces that may have dispersed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
A word from him to his agents abroad, a hint to the editors of the News Letters, or a proclamation, would have dispersed those mischievious rumours, and would have reduced Charles to inaction.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
