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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

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

Its singular radiance owes much to both romantic and religious impulses that Mr. Roeck’s book underplays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

It came from the substance of the Mountain itself, which glowed and faded in a slow breathlike rhythm, with a mother-of-pearl radiance.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Overhead the stars shone as only tropic stars can, and their myriad radiances were reflected in the coal-black water, till it had all the appearance of an ebony floor powdered with gold-dust.

From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Guy Newell Boothby

One or two of the radiances glanced at him with inviting eyes, but no, he dared not face it.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett

The day that is beyond outshines all the lustres and radiances of earth, and turns them into darkness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

One blind man, when he goes out in the sunshine, suspects the great radiances; another prefers to stay near the good coal fire in the refectory....

From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

He who shall count the stars of heaven, shall enumerate the radiances of love.

From Hints for Lovers by T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold) Haultain


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