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radiance

[rey-dee-uhns] / ˈreɪ di əns /




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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 growing closeness between Olive, played with quiet radiance by Ms. Rogers, and William, whom Mr. McHale renders with galumphing gawkiness, forms another affecting strand of the score.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2025

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

Another critic said he had "a fluid physical grace and an inner radiance that sometimes makes it seem as if he's lit from within".

From BBC Sep. 16, 2025

As the coach barreled down the street, Frankie held his pocket watch to the radiance of the lantern on his side of the coach.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Even the shade is but a flight Toward flickering radiances, that slip From space to space; and now the light Sleeps, with calmed rays, upon the lip Of lilac-blossoms golden-white.

From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren

Creation, no longer monotonous, acclaimed him, in widening melody, in brighter radiances.

From The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The well polished fire-irons, and other metal things, seemed to gather up the diffuse daylight and fling it back in concentrated radiances that illuminated the shady cottage with cheerful beauty.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh

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

The Duke was at Derby, and no end of minor radiances.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster




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