emanate
Usage
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The verb emanate is used of intangible things, as light or ideas, spreading from a source: Rumors often emanate from irresponsible persons. The verb emerge is used of coming forth from a place shut off from view, or from concealment, or the like, into sight and notice: The sun emerges from behind the clouds. Issue is often used of a number of persons, a mass of matter, or a volume of smoke, sound, or the like, coming forth through any outlet or outlets: The crowd issued from the building.
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And it may again emanate from across the pond.
From MarketWatch β May 6, 2026
On the sidewalk, generations play spades in the shade and the joyful screams of children emanate from a custom bouncy house adorned with an Egyptian pharaoh bust.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 14, 2026
Much of the rest of the bottom line growth would emanate from share repurchases, which reduces the number of shares and increases earnings per share.
From Barron's β Mar. 19, 2026
Specifically, she never clarifies for us whether the threats faced by her characters are external and real, or whether they emanate from deep within themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 24, 2025
A chilly breeze that seemed to emanate from the heart of the forest lifted the hair at Harry’s brow.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
The light emanates from a glow-in-the-dark ice lolly.
From BBC β Aug. 14, 2026
Mr. Anderson drives home the point that the Smithsonian’s ethos emanates from its leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 4, 2026
The pungent smell of death emanates from the Caracas morgue, an odour that thousands of liters of donated chlorine cannot mask.
From Barron's β Jun. 30, 2026
This stark warning emanates from one of Wall Street’s most respected commentators, Bank of America chief equity strategist Michael Hartnett.
From MarketWatch β Feb. 27, 2026
A faint hum emanates from the dark metal.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Most provocative are the thousands of small seismic tremors that emanated from the area of the slide in the days prior to the mountainside collapsing.
From Science Daily β Oct. 19, 2026
There was a palpable kindness that emanated throughout, as though every employee was working in her honor, whether performing in a show alongside her blood relatives or selling bedazzled tank tops.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 26, 2026
"This agency actually emanated and found itself in the budget from the executive," he said - meaning it came from within the president's own side of government, not from parliament.
From BBC β Jul. 11, 2026
For several years, stock-market leadership emanated from tech companies with spectacular earnings, low debt profiles and huge piles of cash.
From MarketWatch β Jun. 24, 2026
My letters to the authors, inquiring the source of their information, like the letter to the hospital from which Gey’s paper emanated, remain unanswered.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
In a separate security challenge, Pakistan has blamed an increase in attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southern border province of Balochistan on militancy emanating from Afghanistan.
From Barron's β Oct. 11, 2026
I’m afraid that’s the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the past few days of rage and tactlessness emanating from Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 17, 2026
The two inspectors “noted the particular odor emanating from the dumping of putrescent food waste,” according to the notice.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 31, 2026
But only Curry could create the kind of monster Scott wanted – a villain emanating something more complex than evil.
From Salon β Aug. 26, 2026
And the faint light emanating from their pursuers made the oddity up ahead all the more apparent.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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