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[ray] / reɪ /


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The contrast is somewhat similar to the difference between an MRI, which can emphasize soft tissues such as muscle, and an X ray, which is especially useful for viewing dense structures such as bone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

It would represent a small and desperately needed ray of sunshine, before what could be baseball’s nuclear winter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Dean has fared far better fronting her own band, a ray of sunshine singing retro soul and pop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

She leaps from her perch, deploys a tiny parachute, and executes a soft landing—straddling the thrumming ray gun as if it was a bucking bronco.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

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

The signal can be exceptionally faint because conventional carbon ink and carbonized papyrus can look very similar to X rays.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Detecting such a weak signal is difficult because it could easily be buried beneath radiation from other sources, including cosmic rays.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 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

As charnel scarn parades in light— Unfathomed crafts rayed in wowed attire.

From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque

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

He has come out with his own judgment of things raying from him in all directions—a very porcupine of pre-conception.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray

In the picture of "Progress," which he loved, there was a glow, a glory of light, raying out to a far horizon.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens




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