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radiant

[ray-dee-uhnt] / ˈreɪ di ənt /




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On his social media accounts, the difference is striking: a face that was radiant in old pictures, now gone sullen.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Feldman hopes the exhibition, which spans fine-line drawings of entangled lovers and radiant topographical tapestries, will complicate that familiar account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Ninety years on, Kern and Fields’s achievement is still doing what they built it to do—turning a single radiant evening into a refuge against a colder day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Another important factor was what was called radiant heat, he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

I looked once more at the radiant face of my sister.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Unlike the other well-known showers, the radiants of which are stationary, that of the Perseids shifts each night a little in an easterly direction.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

Observe that the principal radiants are situated upon the boundary of the dark regions or at the oases.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

Yet, since a few detonating meteors have been found to proceed from ascertained radiants of shooting-stars, it is difficult to suppose that any generic difference separates them.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

He gave a bound, remaining fastened to the ground by one of his radiants, and raised the others like a bundle of reptiles.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

The order of their power as radiants and absorbents is that here indicated, bisulphide of carbon being the feeblest, and amylene the strongest of the six.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall


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