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radiant

[ray-dee-uhnt] / ˈreɪ di ənt /




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Feldman hopes the exhibition, which spans fine-line drawings of entangled lovers and radiant topographical tapestries, will complicate that familiar account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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

If L7 was a statement, Finch was its punctuation, her crayon-bright hair complementing a radiant humanity.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

To spot them, skygazers should look for the point in the sky where they appear to originate from, known as the radiant.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Bleak heights are carpeted in radiant colors; every crack and crevice of a frowning crag blossoms.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

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

He gave a bound, remaining fastened to the ground by one of his radiants, and raised the others like a bundle of reptiles.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

These nodal points will not, however, afford a general explanation of the many-branched radiants.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly




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