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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dispersed, spreadadjective

    distributed or spread over a considerable extent

    "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"

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  1. dispersed

    Dispersed generally refers to the condition of being distributed or spread over a wide area. It's often used to describe a group of people, animals, or things that are scattered around across different locations rather than being in close proximity or concentrated in one specific place.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dispersed

    of Disperse

  2. Dispersedadjective

    scattered

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dispersed in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dispersed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of dispersed in a Sentence

  1. Juha Saarinen:

    We discovered that the ecological diversity of proboscideans increased drastically once they dispersed from Africa to Eurasia 20 million years ago and to North America 16 million years ago, when land connections between these continents formed.

  2. Kevin Bai:

    The duty will not have a big impact on China's overall steel exports because the volume to the United States is very small... but because of anti-dumping, export destinations are becoming more and more dispersed.

  3. Josh Campbell:

    Portland is not a city under siege. Today, I went to a Starbucks downtown, ate lunch at one of the city's famous downtown food trucks, and bought a new pair of shoes at the mall. As I write this, I'm looking out of my hotel room at a bike tour riding by outside on the downtown street, to be sure, there have been protests -- peaceful during the daytime, and some turning violent at night -- for over 90 days, but the rioting has largely been confined to one city block downtown near the federal courthouse. Last night, protesters showed up at a police precinct a few miles from downtown and were dispersed by police after some protesters started throwing eggs and rocks at police cars. There has been periodic, localized violence, but nothing widespread.

  4. Patrick Roberts:

    Town planners today in tropical regions are adopting the dispersed approach in cities rather than the dense vertical approach, so actually even today we’re now realizing that what they were doing in the past was the best way to support dense populations in a given region.

  5. Theodore Johnson:

    I think that That Sanders black support this cycle looks a lot like That Sanders black support in 2016. It tends to be geographically dispersed and stem from younger black voters who usually lean to the left on a range of policy issues, i don't want to say that That Sanders has hit a ceiling, but That Sanders seems to have found That Sanders constituency, and it's similar to what it was four years ago. The question is : Can That Sanders increase That Sanders share of the black vote through turnout instead of through converting older black voters ?

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