The arteries were diffusely narrowed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This is a diffusely branching, softly villous annual grass. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
I have long postulated that some knowledge was stored diffusely. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2007 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
I regarded the diffusely illuminated wall six or seven feet before me. From Wordnik.com. [Trumps of Doom]
Only his face and hair diffusely reflected the light from the screens. From Wordnik.com. [Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners] Reference
An indirect driver operates more diffusely, by altering one or more direct drivers. From Wordnik.com. [Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Biodiversity Synthesis~ Key Questions on Biodiversity in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment] Reference
A grim tale finely (perhaps just a little too diffusely) told and admirably presented. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920] Reference
Minutely and diffusely Mitya told them everything about the signals invented by Fyodor. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
They tend to be papery, glabrous, and laxly and rather diffusely veined, with one or two seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 23] Reference
Hellenistic “One” and “Logos,” which were conceived more diffusely, and less controversially. From Wordnik.com. [INFINITY] Reference
True, focused coherent light like lasers should only ever be pointed at diffusely reflecting surfaces. From Wordnik.com. [Do you seez thatz? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
These symbolic representations are diffusely internalized and pervade our experiences of self and other. From Wordnik.com. [Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox] Reference
Plaque grows diffusely, causing ischemia to the heart, brain and extremities including that ‘3rd’ leg. From Wordnik.com. [Statin disaster | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
"People do something reasonable for one bounce and then assume it reflects diffusely," Marschner explained. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 23, 2006 - July 29, 2006 Archives] Reference
A more realistic picture, some argue, features integrative unity as existing diffusely throughout the organism. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
In the end, the wave from turned out to be the optimal design for reflecting the light diffusely into the room. From Wordnik.com. [Bedside Table Light, The NOD Light] Reference
Otherwise the brain would operate more like a diffusely daydreaming cauliflower than a thinking, conscious organ. From Wordnik.com. [ENTANGLED MINDS] Reference
A significant share of the incident radiation is reflected diffusely and therefore unavailable as cooking energy. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
Power works diffusely, utilizing the very subjects that are constructed within its context to perpetuate its goals. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Feminism] Reference
The remaining 74% is thought to consist of dark energy, an even stranger component, distributed diffusely in space. From Wordnik.com. [I haz a ponder - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
It might seem like Theory of Mind is such a complex concept that it would be represented diffusely throughout the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
Some of the stories are sharply plotted; others are diffusely impressionistic; while still others resemble anthropological essays. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
A preacher had held forth diffusely and ingeniously upon the doctrine that the Creator of the universe had made all things beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827] Reference
In general, underlying causes tend to operate more diffusely (i.e., from a distance), often by altering one or more proximate causes. From Wordnik.com. [Causes of land-use and land-cover change] Reference
On the first point: the truth of faith is contained in sacred Scripture diffusely and in various modes, in some of which it is obscure. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
It displays great erudition, though somewhat crudely and diffusely introduced. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)] Reference
Spenser, in one of his smaller compositions, has sported more diffusely on the same subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
I wasn't really keeping count, and I was working very diffusely, doing all kinds of things meanwhile. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Van Gogh painting stolen from Cairo museum 'still missing'] Reference
In her 'Sociable Letters,' which were published in 1664, she enthusiastically, if diffusely, described how. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
"Let me have the pleasure of telling it you my way," cried she, and told it diffusely, and kept him writhing. From Wordnik.com. [White Lies] Reference
Minutely and diffusely Mitya told them everything about the signals invented by Fyodor Pavlovitch for Smerdyakov. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Diversely and diffusely during days of old did the deity describe and disclose himself through diviners to our dads …. From Wordnik.com. [The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow] Reference
At nineteen he drew the plan of a tragedy; and paraphrased, rather too diffusely, the ode of Horace which begins "Integer vitas.". From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
The South -- more diffusely settled, with less social activity, with a debased labor class -- caught less of the spirit of advance. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement] Reference
They don't show up in housing analysis because, whether in country piles or pied-à-terres in London, they are spread too diffusely. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Sandy or rocky places from New Jersey southward best suit this low, dense, diffusely branched shrub which blooms prolifically from July to. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
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