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She’s a ray of light; he’s magnetically mature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Two hydropower workers were pulled alive on Friday from a tunnel buried by debris in Nepal, a rare ray of hope on the tenth day of rescue efforts after catastrophic Himalayan flooding.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Cosmic ray energies are measured in electron volts, a unit describing the energy an electron gains when its electrical potential increases by one volt.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026

Ms Mullan described her daughter Amelia as "a ray of sunshine," who "had the most beautiful curls and a creativity that shone through everything that she did".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Early in the morning, before the sun had thrown its first ray or the redbirds chirped their first note, all four children were gathered in the boys’ bedroom.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

One stunning shot follows the group from behind as they are silhouetted by the setting sun whose fading rays show off the clouds’ contours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Neutrons are particularly useful for detecting light elements on the periodic table, especially hydrogen, while X rays are highly effective at revealing heavier elements.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

The dispersed ash eventually settles out of the atmosphere, permitting the Sun’s rays to shine fully on the surface again – reviving agriculture and ecosystems.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

That day, he also saw groups of uniquely colored manta rays — some were a tan brown, and others were gray with a black stripe, called spinetail devil rays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Divine light, for example, is sometimes indicated by golden rays, at other times by a halo or aura.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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

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

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

Heaven-flowers, rayed by shadows golden From the palms they sprang beneath, Now perhaps divinely holden, Swing against him in a wreath: We may think so from the quickening of his bloom and of his breath.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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 Mars Center and Deenmor forts were wasting no power raying a ship at that distance.

From The Ultimate Weapon by Gerald McConnell

He conquers as the sun conquers the thick-ribbed ice by raying down its heat upon it, and melting it into sweet water.

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