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scattered

 adjective
     
scat‧tered
spread over a wide area or over a long period of time
scattered over/throughout/across/around etc
Broken glass lay scattered over the floor.
scattered with
The sky was scattered with stars.
There will be some scattered showers (=short periods of rain) in the afternoon.
a widely scattered set of islands
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