radiance
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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
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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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