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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

However violent Gandhi’s quest for non-violence becomes, the production evolves into impossible radiance, turning the opera into something resembling a Passion Play.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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 I squeezed the pedal harder, the animated speedometer—designed a bit like an Aztec sundial, with spiky points blooming around the center—grew in radiance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

It flared with a sudden white radiance like lightning; and his voice rolled like thunder.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The swiftness of his ascent through these floating, waving radiances for which he had no name was nightmarish, like falling into some bottomless well.

From The Brain by Alexander Blade

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

Under the combined blaze of their radiances, the wilderness that stretched before me, became steadily more visible.

From The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

The liquid light of the hoard flashed strange radiances on their tanned, deep-lined faces, now smeared with sweat and dust, with powder-grime and blood.

From The Flying Legion by George Allan England

The cherry trees were swollen almost to blossom, and the apple trees had pale radiances in the glance of the sun.

From 'Doc.' Gordon by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill


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