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radiation

[ray-dee-ay-shuhn] / ˌreɪ diˈeɪ ʃən /




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Television has become like background radiation: toxic but barely noticed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

He underwent radiation therapy and is receiving hormone therapy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Biden announced the diagnosis two days later and began receiving hormone and radiation therapy immediately.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Together, these improvements allow the simulation to track both the formation of galaxies and the enormous changes that radiation produces across cosmic distances.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

And unlike Laura, who’d had surgery and chemo and now radiation to get better, his mom hadn’t even stayed in the hospital even though she would lose him if she left.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

There were radiations of hoofed mammals; of primates including our ancestors; of whales and dolphins; of the all-time biggest sharks.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025

The link between a tendency to explore and colonize new environments and rapid evolution could help explain adaptive radiations in other species, says Daniel Moen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Riverside.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

The ultimate causes, or triggers, of adaptive radiations is one of the big mysteries in biology.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

The fossil record shows several adaptive radiations in the horse lineage, which is now much reduced to only one genus, Equus, with several species.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

Billy received a message carried by the radiations.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut


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