General
General adjective - Belonging or relating to the whole.
Spread out and general are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spread out" instead an adjective "General".
Spread out
Spread out verb - To arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area.
General and spread out are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "General" instead an adjective "Spread out".
Both terms in one sentence
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Well, that and the general lack of enormous concentrations of people in the filthy cities-Russian cities always were more spread out.
Source: The Dung Ages - Word spread out of the mahou shoujo/general anime viewership with intense speed and it is now considered one of the best anime of recent years.
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Though all of the instruments are harder individually, the difficult parts are more spread out over the whole setlist, meaning that the general band-difficulty saw a massive drop, even as the individual tracks became harder.
Source: Video Game / Rock Band
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