Quietly, too, another undercurrent of thought is spreading.

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Tacking on some more months of higher inflation can be thought of as spreading inflation over a longer time period.

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We should be spreading and thus diminishing risk as we do these things and dispersing risk is usually thought of as a good thing.

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Like most commentators (including central bankers), they thought that the economic outlook was stable and that the financial system was doing a good job of spreading risk.

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Shimoon thought he was safe because he was only speaking on the phone and there was no written record of his spreading of secrets.

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It is thought that seventh-century Italian monks invented the snack to reward children after prayer studies, with the recipe then spreading to Austria and Germany.

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