I believe they can, but the capacity to do so is widely dispersed.

If the radiation is widely dispersed you might never be sure.

Small ones are portable, by their very nature, and have been widely dispersed.

At this time we Trustees were widely dispersed and made no effort to lead the university.

They have subsequently been found to be widely dispersed within many forms of life.

The debris seemed too widely dispersed for this to have occurred recently.

The corpus of materials is very large, and widely dispersed.

The tax base should be widely and fairly evenly dispersed.

For one thing, they say, voter preferences could be widely dispersed.

From there the clothing is widely dispersed into the interior of Africa.