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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

“That’s why we keep seeing these pullbacks on any ray of hope.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Once abundant along Ghana's shores, esene, or guitarfish -- with the flattened body of a ray and the tail of a shark -- have become increasingly difficult to find.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 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

The small attic window makes a ray of light across the floor.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

But standard sunglasses should also never be used to observe an eclipse, as they will still allow harmful solar rays to reach the retina.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Eclipse glasses - which will be handed out at events across Scotland hosted by astronomical societies or bought online - can offer protection from harmful rays of sunlight.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

They calculated latitude from the angle of the sun’s rays and tested the ocean’s depth with lead weights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Together, the observatories supplied measurements across a broad portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from radio waves to gamma rays.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026

He threw himself toward the opening, toward the last rays of sunlight.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

The little girl fingered the corner of the apron of coarse cloth covering her petticoat of whitish cloth rayed with wide black stripes; the young boy convulsively grasped his cap of brown wool.

From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène

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

Still philosophy is saying: "Now that hope with life seems gone, Some are cursing, some are praying, God smiles raying in the dawn!"

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

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 Maclaren, Alexander

You ask me why I am raying," said the fair young creature; "but, indeed, I cannot tell you.

From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William