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radiate

[ray-dee-ayt, ray-dee-it, -ayt] / ˈreɪ diˌeɪt, ˈreɪ di ɪt, -ˌeɪt /


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But Ms. Northeast seems to radiate the same joy as Sybylla’s in being who she is and doing what she does.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

In effect, the megastructure would absorb starlight, use that energy for whatever purpose its builders intended, and then radiate the excess as infrared heat.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

Cordido's eyes can't help but radiate with gratitude when he speaks about the volunteer rescuers who pulled him from the ruins of Venezuela's double earthquake, which killed more than 2,600 people.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

As I ambled past groups doing yoga and vacationing families lounging on the grass, pain started to radiate through my ankles and up my shinbones before settling uncomfortably in my hips.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

And Scott seems to radiate warmth; lying next to him is like lying next to a fire.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

Durga Devi finds no relief after a day working in New Delhi's sweltering summer, because her poorly ventilated home radiates trapped heat, leaving her bedroom as hot as 45 degrees at night.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

"Killer heat warnings" reads the Metro's headline, as Western Europe's "heat dome" covering Italy, Spain and France radiates across the English Channel.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Teenagers everywhere fell under the spell of Rice’s vampires in the mid-‘80s with an ardor that AMC’s “The Vampire Lestat” radiates through the devotion of his superfans.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Ms. Field radiates palpable contempt that matches Iago’s—she’s almost as menacing as he is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Not only did it, the sky also radiated some of Maria’s favorite colors, fall hues, a palate of gold and pale orange.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The resulting device can control the direction in which heat is radiated, switch that behavior on or off, and retain its configuration even after the power has been turned off.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026

As the Sunday sun set over Sunderland, her performance radiated with the warmth it left behind.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

In 1967, his black evening gown with cape radiated simplicity in form and draping even as it also referenced the attire of Catholic priests.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Maybe it was Michael’s imagination, but it felt like the air radiated with shared nervousness, like they were both jumpy and scared, even though they were just standing there, watching and waiting.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The chronological installation begins with Evans’s first two pen-and-ink drawings from about 1935: abstract radiating eyes, spirals, zigzags and squiggles—feverish doodles resembling ancient pictographic narratives set down in a trance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The heat felt like 100 degrees radiating off the pavement.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

While the impact will not be visible from Earth with the naked eye, people with access to a sophisticated telescope may be able to see a flash radiating off the Moon's surface, Bothwell said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Over the course of a month, notice which ingredients disappear almost embarrassingly fast and which ones slowly expire in the back of your crisper drawer while radiating guilt.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

All those unseen billions and trillions of charged particles, and possibly, she thought, of Dust, conjured a radiating glow out of the upper atmosphere.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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