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Eradication was possible through the sterile insect technique, which uses gamma radiation to irradiate screwworm pupae and create sterile male flies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

As soon as the salts in the liquid have accumulated to a significant degree, the researchers irradiate the liquid with light.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2024

Inexplicable fires first obliterate Japanese freighters and irradiate fish, a ripped-from-the-headlines echo of the Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident—a Japanese tuna ship showered in radioactive fallout from the Castle Bravo thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023

“This beta radiation is not very penetrating so that practically all of the energy emitted remains within the individual and cannot irradiate anyone else.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

Fie continued to provide Segre with metal scraps and even acceded to Segre’s request to irradiate a quantity of uranium oxide mailed from Italy so that he could continue searching for nuclear reactions.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In one of the experimental approaches, the cemented carbide rod leads the direction of fabrication while the laser directly irradiates the top of the rod.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

Rebecca understood that while regular radiation irradiates all the tissue it travels through, proton therapy delivers the full dose to the tumor and then it stops.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2019

The French conductor’s luminous elegance irradiates Menuhin’s intense humanity; there’s nothing else quite like it in the extensive discographies of either artist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016

Heeger’s team irradiates the fibroblasts to prevent them from replicating during this process.

From Nature ● May 9, 2016

Yet for all her stoicism her color comes and goes, and now she is pale, and now "celestial, rosy red, love's proper hue," and now a little smile comes up and irradiates her face.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

The fruit, after being harvested, must be irradiated at one of a handful of certified government facilities in India, inspected by a U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Sand-sized particles of irradiated nuclear fuel got into Dounreay's drainage system in the 1960s and 1970s.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025

As Bonlieu toiled away in Auckland, Warrior crew members were moving a community of cancer-stricken Marshall Islanders, ignored by the American government that had irradiated their atoll, to a new home.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Curtis makes his living as a Hollywood screenwriter, penning B-horror movies filled with irradiated mutants and monsters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

A further calculation gave Seaborg pause: the irradiated uranium would be ferociously radioactive.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

New research demonstrates that fast electronic processes can be probed by irradiating the materials with ions first.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024

Although a disk herniation definitely can be a possible cause of pain irradiating in the leg, it is only rarely a cause of local back pain.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2023

Biologists are irradiating thousands of male mosquitoes in labs, to be released later, in the hope that their offspring will be unviable because of DNA damage.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2023

Researchers in China have tried irradiating peanut extracts with gamma rays to make them less allergenic.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2016

Plastic is the new protector; we wrap the already plastic tumblers of hotels in more plastic, and seal the toilet seats like state secrets after irradiating them with ultraviolet light.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas