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As the first ray of sun hit on an unexpectedly frosty August morning, a few hundred just-graduated Ukrainian paratroopers were traipsing across a corn and rapeseed field, preparing for their first jump.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Tributes have been paid to the two girls by their schools and Pilgrims Pre-Prep School head Jo Webster described Nala as a "ray of sunshine".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

"There wasn't a single ray of light coming through a crack in the rubble; despair threatened to overwhelm me," Cordido told AFP from his daughter's house in Caracas.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

The team also tested whether the proposed blazar population would produce too many gamma rays compared with the known extragalactic gamma ray background measured by Fermi.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026

“But that landing on the giant ray gun wasn’t as soft as it might’ve appeared. I’m going to head over to the pool for a soak in the hot tub.”

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

To investigate the mystery, the researchers measured gamma rays produced as a radioactive copper isotope decayed into zinc.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Only the magnetic transition produced the low-energy enhancement in gamma rays.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Experts recommend specifically designed eclipse glasses which filter UV rays that meet the standard ISO 12312-2:2015.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Regular sunglasses do not provide adequate protection as "they don't block out the harmful rays of sunlight" - with this eclipse, 8% of the sun's surface will still be visible, Sanders said.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

The top of the Washington Monument picked up the day’s first rays of faint pink light.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The initiative seeks to restore the rayed bean mussel, which has not been found in Kentucky waters in more than 40 years.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2020

Some of the brighter craters are rayed, like Tycho and Copernicus on the Moon, and many have central peaks.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

For a reciprocal test, we used the same H. melpomene races as the ingroup to compare with rayed Heliconius timareta florencia at the B/D region.

From Nature ● Jul. 4, 2012

Instead, our results imply that derived colour-pattern elements have introgressed recently between both rayed and postman forms of and .

From Nature ● Jul. 4, 2012

Externally they are at once recognized by the absence of a rayed dorsal fin, of which only a rudiment remains as a small interneural spine concealed below the skin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Ever since Colonel Lindbergh flew one across the Atlantic in 1927, most U. S. aeronautical engineers have been developing air-cooled, radial engines with cylinders raying out like huge wheel-spokes around a short, chunky crankshaft.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was looking around the hem to see if the quilt maker had stitched in her initials, but the edges were all raying away.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

The Cross is an eternal power, raying out light and love over all humanity and through all ages.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

But as far as raying down this Kurchuk is concerned, these Hulguns are completely nonscientific.

From Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper

A garish appeal, no doubt: a few raying spokes of colour, and the vision has gone.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch