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
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
And in their first feature lead role, the queer, L.A.-born actor Tonatiuh embodies all of Molina’s contradictions — his bluster, his pain, his radiance — to heart-wrenching effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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
A sudden radiance from on high fell on the two and made them look up.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
That singularly beautiful mineral termed "crocidolite," which displays such sheens and radiances of gold and bronze and green as give it the appearance of satin changed into stone, is nothing more than compressed asbestos.
From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones
Like little yellow stars that, fallen down, Hang pendulous, enmeshed among the boughs, Mild golden radiances they gem the crown Fair Summer sets upon her beauteous brows.
From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner
I saw the radiances of Jupiter and Saturn, spinning, with incredible swiftness, in huge orbits.
From The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Who that has suffered has not felt wave after wave break dully against one rock, till brain and heart, with all their radiances, seemed lost in a single shadow?
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
And she is there, that is a pyramid Whereon the stars, the statues of the dead, Are imaged over the eternal hall, A group of radiances majestical!
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang
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