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"distributed" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often decentralized (13 letters).
Definitions
Spread out, shared, or divided among people or places.
Used in a sentence
“Webster and Wong (2008) found that semivirtual teams had more positive perceptions of their local teammates compared to the distributed teammates […]”
“distributed computing”
“distributed ray tracing”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Spread around”11 letters
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