How to Use dispersion in a Sentence

dispersion

noun

• The music didn't just change based on the space—the dispersion of light, or a breeze through a window.
  — Wired, 25 Sep. 2019
• The dispersion of refugees across the world has long been a part of U.S. foreign policy.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
• There was more dispersion than usual in the first-quarter results of U.S. banks, and the same may be true of European lenders.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• Also a unique trait of the whitebark pine is that its sole vector of seed dispersion is done by one bird -- the Clark's nutcracker.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 July 2021
• But the feathers of the bluebird, the kingfisher and other birds are colored blue due to the dispersion of the light striking minute air cells in the horny structure of the feathers.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• There's also a large dispersion of views around how aggressively the Fed will cut this year.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
• The first step is known as dispersion; the algorithm directs the robots to keep away from one another.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
• The wind and weather patterns, coupled with how close the leak was to the shore, made the dispersion of the oil slick particularly wide, experts have said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• And all this despite the fact that microbial dispersion in this area, due to the wind and to human visitors, is intense.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• When the bugs start arriving, just brush those aromatic leaves to release some of their scent, and the dispersion will begin.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• It was found that compression was most successful when the pulses were allowed to stretch through dispersion in the fiber.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2023
• Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• The study, published in the Journal of Travel Medicine this spring, modeled aerosol dispersion in an aircraft cabin.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2021
• The higher ceiling allows for a wider dispersion between short- and long-term yields, meaning the yield curve can steepen.
  — Daniel Kruger, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
• The 17th century marked a time of dispersion and upheaval not unlike our own, with shiploads of colonists escaping tyranny for the New World.
  — Mindy Belz, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• The Wallace Line runs through Asia and Australia, and shows an incongruity in the dispersion of animal species on either side.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
• While the S&P 500 has done well since November, there has been a lot of dispersion—that is, some sectors of the market doing well while others struggle.
  — WSJ, 29 June 2017
• That has led to the widest dispersion in earnings estimates among analysts since at least 2007.
  — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 12 July 2020
• The geographic dispersion meant that the Cherngs needed to control their stores from a distance.
  — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Both walls and ceiling were covered with white zigzag patterns to help sonic dispersion.
  — Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Expert tip: Apply this to wet hair for more seamless dispersion.
  — Mary Honkus, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2024
• This dish features high, straight sides and a large surface area that allows for more even heat dispersion between layers.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2023
• The authors note that dispersion soared in March to levels last seen during the dotcom bust and the global financial crisis.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• The Taliban counter these advantages through dispersion and hiding among the people.
  — Fox News, 7 Aug. 2019
• That's why researchers also look at a value called k, the dispersion factor, which is how much a disease clusters.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
• The threat of artillery further drives dispersion, so that companies are often spread over nearly two miles of front.
  — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2024
• The jobs report shows healthy economic conditions at the start of the year, as reflected in both the magnitude of gains as well as the healthy dispersion of job creation.
  — Bloomberg News, OregonLive.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• And the teams’ calculations of the sediment plume’s dispersion show clearly that the sediment didn’t reach the sea surface.
  — Katharine Sanderson, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• The following graph adds in the actual counts to show the wide dispersion of actual employment changes.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• But Iran also relies on the diversity and dispersion of its tools to make its adversaries reluctant to respond directly.
  — Jon B. Alterman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024