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Example sentences for: defuse

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A reefered piece in the LAT emphasizes that the document dump is an attempt to defuse the controversy over McCain's efforts on behalf of campaign contributor Paxson Communications.
The same, however, cannot be said either of the recent and increasingly common af flu ence, barely, if at all, distinguishable from the similarly mis-stressed ef flu ents, or of defuse , when a failure to place nearly equal emphasis on both syllables leads to the word's being mistaken for the verb diffuse .
The good news: India is trying to defuse its arms race with Pakistan.
(3) Although precise figures should remain elusive (under normal circumstances), publishing the figures in the current climate of suspicion will clear the air, defuse anger, and enable people to move on.
The patrols, explains the paper, were first proposed by the Russians but have since been embraced by the U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, who stresses that the two countries are now working together to defuse the Kosovo crisis.