How to Use diffusion in a Sentence

diffusion

noun

• The diffusion of seed sources is the norm in the business.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
• But in the case of the bismuth crystal, there is no diffusion.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
• The first person in the social diffusion chain told the next person about the articles, the second told the third, and so on.
  — Filippo Menczer, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2020
• And then by diffusion propagates through the atria, and then from the atria goes to the AV node which is the only part that connects the ventricles from the atria.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• The currents create pores in the embryos, and the gene editing agent enters by diffusion.
  — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 22 May 2017
• But what looked to some like the magnanimous diffusion of progress looked to others like theft.
  — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• And that is why the geographic diffusion of tech will change the industry at its very core.
  — Steve Case, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• Posen confirmed that both his namesake line, House of Z, and diffusion line Z Spoke, had shuttered.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2019
• Others, like The North Face and Arc’teryx, have both developed stylish diffusion lines.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 14 Feb. 2018
• One reason that QAnon is so hard to track is its diffusion across so many online platforms.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase and Tim Lister, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
• This had the effect of making the water more viscous, which slowed the diffusion of the activator.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 May 2018
• The test compared active flow cells to those with passive diffusion.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• This would aid the diffusion of new ideas and create an incentive for struggling places to help themselves.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• Today, the apps are much better, thanks to diffusion models.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• That water then dissolves the salt on the surface of the meat and, through diffusion, the two re-enter the meat, seasoning the chicken thoroughly.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2021
• That Mikhail also owned his Night, from 1880, might speak to his diffusion but also to his catholicity.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022
• Our perception of diffusion has to do with the coarseness of our measurements.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
• Product licenses and a ready-to-wear diffusion-line called 1992 (named after the year the line was established) were trials to more cash.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2022
• The grass plants self-organize unevenly and hence draw water unevenly to their roots and through diffusion in the sandy soils.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
• The reason for this slow diffusion is poor performance.
  — Gary Smith, Quartz, 4 June 2021
• But the growth, those incremental fractions of a percent, and the rate of diffusion of innovation was very, very small.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2021
• How cells make sense of these diffusion gradients has always been a mystery.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2019
• Chapter five describes the pattern of the diffusion of technology with a detailed case study of the growth of the electrical market.
  — David A. Teich, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• What hasn’t always been true, though, is the diffusion of talent across the running-back and wide-receiver positions.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 4 July 2018
• Comfort comes from a breathable polyurethane (PU) footbed, a cushioned midsole, and a shock diffusion plate that helps protect the more delicate instep area of the foot.
  — Bob Beacham, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• Richardson then went on to study the diffusion of gases through the atmosphere; his work was used to study the diffusion patterns of poison gases.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
• The ubiquity came from diffusion by the marine layer, and the wan desaturation was probably from the height of the cloud.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 10 Sep. 2020
• Is Erlanger the first bride whose wedding has spawned multiple diffusion lines?
  — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2022
• The flow of fluid into the hole is relatively slow, however, and allows the diffusion of chemical signals away from the black hole.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
• Combining video diffusion with SMPL as a control signal is a huge win for companies training video diffusion models.
  — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024