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radiance

[ray-dee-uhns] / ˈreɪ di əns /




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He named the resulting microscope Theia, after the ancient Greek Titaness associated with light and radiance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

She’s by his side clasping her hands, wearing a colorful blouse that pales in radiance to Huerta’s hopeful face as she looks at the crowd before them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

The fashion label Coperni has created leggings and other garments made from a fabric embedded with bacteria, which it says help rejuvenate the skin and boost radiance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

As Elmire, Ms. Gray has a gentle radiance and tolerant air of affection for her husband’s folly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

While her radiance usually dimmed everyone else by comparison, today it beautified everybody it fell upon.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Like little yellow stars that, fallen down, Hang pendulous, enmeshed among the boughs, Mild golden radiances they gem the crown Fair Summer sets upon her beauteous brows.

From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner

I saw the radiances of Jupiter and Saturn, spinning, with incredible swiftness, in huge orbits.

From The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

Spring has its subtler magic for us, because of the dim mysteries of unremembering remembrance and of the vague radiances of hope.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod

She was, in short, a thoroughly handsome woman, and the sunlight struck curious radiances from the little pearls she wore in the shell-like lobes of her ears.

From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

These aërial creatures throng to contemplate the Virgin, and their forms recall those radiances in the shape of crowns that fill the Dantesque Paradise, making the name of Mary resound with their praises.

From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton


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