radiate
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But Ms. Northeast seems to radiate the same joy as Sybylla’s in being who she is and doing what she does.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
Her anger seemed to radiate from the burn itself.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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Splayed in an armchair in a Midtown Manhattan hotel with views of a fog-shrouded Rockefeller Center, Richards still radiates roguish, live-wire energy at 82.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
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
She radiates this dark-black pride, but not the way I want it.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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Not only did it, the sky also radiated some of Maria’s favorite colors, fall hues, a palate of gold and pale orange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
To get there, she jumped, radiated and hair-flipped through an exuberant free program set to Donna Summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
About thirty feet down, the tunnel split into four smaller arteries, each one identical, but the one on the left radiated cold.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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The chronological installation begins with Evans’s first two pen-and-ink drawings from about 1935: abstract radiating eyes, spirals, zigzags and squiggles—feverish doodles resembling ancient pictographic narratives set down in a trance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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
While the impact will not be visible from Earth with the naked eye, people with access to a sophisticated telescope may be able to see a flash radiating off the Moon's surface, Bothwell said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
But there’s none of that suffocating tension radiating off Bo like there was the last time these two saw each other.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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