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radiant

[rey-dee-uhnt] / ˈreɪ di ənt /




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

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

On the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, Garibay described her daughter as an amazing soul with “a radiant heart.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

The legacy is small, but it is radiant in its perfection.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

If L7 was a statement, Finch was its punctuation, her crayon-bright hair complementing a radiant humanity.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

Persephone was the radiant maiden of the spring and the summertime, whose light step upon the dry, brown hillside was enough to make it fresh and blooming, as Sappho writes,

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The radiants carried them away, and I saw them no more.

From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald

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

These nodal points will not, however, afford a general explanation of the many-branched radiants.

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

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

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




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