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radiation

[ray-dee-ay-shuhn] / ˌreɪ diˈeɪ ʃən /




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Standing near a radiation monitoring tower and an alarm post, 15-year-old Mohammad Nafiz said he saw little to fear.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Claire underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments to kill the malignant cells in his body, but the cancer returned again in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Standard care typically combines surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Still, space-based data centers face many challenges, from costs to radiation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Findings from the Snow White Project led to breakthroughs about reversing radiation damage to organs. The military was very interested and invested money.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

There were radiations of hoofed mammals; of primates including our ancestors; of whales and dolphins; of the all-time biggest sharks.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025

The link between a tendency to explore and colonize new environments and rapid evolution could help explain adaptive radiations in other species, says Daniel Moen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Riverside.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

The ultimate causes, or triggers, of adaptive radiations is one of the big mysteries in biology.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

The fossil record shows several adaptive radiations in the horse lineage, which is now much reduced to only one genus, Equus, with several species.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

Consequently, it would no longer be possible to compel “all those interested in nuclear physics and penetrating radiations to come to Berkeley.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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