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Instead of using cobalt or other radioactive materials, Wilson’s team uses an X-ray machine to irradiate the pests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

In practice, however, this is of little use -- after all, it would be tedious to repeatedly irradiate the wall with intense UV light in order to drive the self-cleaning process.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

Inexplicable fires first obliterate Japanese freighters and irradiate fish, a ripped-from-the-headlines echo of the Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident—a Japanese tuna ship showered in radioactive fallout from the Castle Bravo thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023

According to the NRC, embrittlement occurs as a result of reactor operation when neutrons from the nuclear fuel irradiate the steel plates and welds used to construct the reactor vessel.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

All his work since then had culminated in a factory that could irradiate two hundred tons of uranium at a time to produce a half pound of plutonium every two hundred days.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In one of the experimental approaches, the cemented carbide rod leads the direction of fabrication while the laser directly irradiates the top of the rod.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

Rebecca understood that while regular radiation irradiates all the tissue it travels through, proton therapy delivers the full dose to the tumor and then it stops.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2019

The French conductor’s luminous elegance irradiates Menuhin’s intense humanity; there’s nothing else quite like it in the extensive discographies of either artist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016

Heeger’s team irradiates the fibroblasts to prevent them from replicating during this process.

From Nature ● May 9, 2016

To say that Kilmer was not a Keats is not to say that the friendship that irradiates Mr. Holliday's memoir was less lovely than that of Keats and Severn, for instance.

From Pipefuls by Christopher Morley

Those molecules change shape when irradiated by the sun, flexing into a strained version of their regular form.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

The fruit, after being harvested, must be irradiated at one of a handful of certified government facilities in India, inspected by a U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

As Bonlieu toiled away in Auckland, Warrior crew members were moving a community of cancer-stricken Marshall Islanders, ignored by the American government that had irradiated their atoll, to a new home.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Curtis makes his living as a Hollywood screenwriter, penning B-horror movies filled with irradiated mutants and monsters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

It not only tells how much radiation an object gives off, but also how hot an object gets when irradiated with a given amount of energy.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

New research demonstrates that fast electronic processes can be probed by irradiating the materials with ions first.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024

Although a disk herniation definitely can be a possible cause of pain irradiating in the leg, it is only rarely a cause of local back pain.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2023

Biologists are irradiating thousands of male mosquitoes in labs, to be released later, in the hope that their offspring will be unviable because of DNA damage.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2023

On Peleliu, men fought in the irradiating heat and on coral, which made finding shelter well-nigh impossible.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2017

Plastic is the new protector; we wrap the already plastic tumblers of hotels in more plastic, and seal the toilet seats like state secrets after irradiating them with ultraviolet light.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas