Distributed
Distributed adjective - Spread out or scattered about or divided up.
Used and distributed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Used" instead a verb "Distributed".
Used
Used adjective - Being in the habit or custom.
Distributed and used are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Distributed" instead a verb "Used".
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Both words in one sentence
- Valve Software's (retail) games used to be distributed by Sierra, until the release of The Orange Box, in which they are now distributed by EA Games.
Source: Channel Hop - Hive Mind: The nanoswarms work using distributed intelligence, which isn't quite this trope, but it is used as a layman's metaphor in the book at one point.
Source: Literature / Prey -
When EI-01 used it originally, he was using every computer in Tokyo as a distributed computing network to handle them.
Source: Roboteching
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