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radiate

[rey-dee-eyt, rey-dee-it, -eyt] / ˈreɪ diˌeɪt, ˈreɪ di ɪt, -ˌeɪt /


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They radiate a kind of vampiric smoothness, and it will take you no longer to realize that something’s up with these two than it takes to say “Something’s up with these two.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

“It’s hard to put it into words, but John Ford’s works all kind of radiate with the warmth that must have been a part of the set,” Kurosawa says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

"Confirming a non-universal X-ray-to-ultraviolet relation with cosmic time is quite surprising and challenges our understanding of how supermassive black holes grow and radiate," said Dr. Antonis Georgakakis, one of the study's authors.

From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025

And after a nervy bogey on the first, the cheers began to radiate across the links.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

The eyes of the most bullheaded boys radiate a shining determination: every ounce of their attention has been trained to ferret out weakness.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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