radiate
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Charged-up walls radiate warmth back into rooms that never get the chance to cool.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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
Then he personally adjusts my makeup until I seem to radiate a soft, rosy glow.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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As a “heat dome” radiates across the US east coast, fans are turning up in record heat to cheer on their teams in the middle of the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
Fox is reborn as Eddie Triplett in the book, a charming and erudite book editor who radiates joie de vivre and is among the loves of his stepdaughter Daphne’s life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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
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He cranked the energy back up for his 2011 hit No Church in the Wild, which was amplified by firey pyrotechnics that radiated heat through the stadium.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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
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
Even with my limited knowledge, the mountain radiated a kind of gravity, as though the desert itself were remembering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
He radiated energy, feeding off the general bedlam of the house.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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These brilliant galactic centers, powered by enormous black holes, were already radiating as much light as a trillion Suns when the Universe was only 670 million years old, about 5% of its present age.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
He’s hardly able to parry the upbraiding meted out by Mr. Giamatti’s Jean, fastidiously dressed and radiating pompous self-satisfaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
There was a comforting nostalgia in watching her surrounded by tchotchkes, radiating the loose, warm confidence that made “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” such a phenomenon in the 1990s.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The heat felt like 100 degrees radiating off the pavement.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
They continued paddling, now feeling the wind from the rotors, the ripples radiating outward.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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