radiant
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On his social media accounts, the difference is striking: a face that was radiant in old pictures, now gone sullen.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Ninety years on, Kern and Fields’s achievement is still doing what they built it to do—turning a single radiant evening into a refuge against a colder day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Announcing the news, her agent Carla Alexander described her as a "beautiful, vibrant and incredibly talented woman whose radiant smile could light up any room".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
On the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, Garibay described her daughter as an amazing soul with “a radiant heart.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Her entire facade changed, until the ghostly La Llorona became as radiant and alive as a young woman bronzed by the sun.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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These are described as "meteors with stationary radiants," since for months together they seem to come from the same fixed points in the sky.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Observe that the principal radiants are situated upon the boundary of the dark regions or at the oases.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
Yet, since a few detonating meteors have been found to proceed from ascertained radiants of shooting-stars, it is difficult to suppose that any generic difference separates them.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
The order of their power as radiants and absorbents is that here indicated, bisulphide of carbon being the feeblest, and amylene the strongest of the six.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
The radiants carried them away, and I saw them no more.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
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