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The contrast is somewhat similar to the difference between an MRI, which can emphasize soft tissues such as muscle, and an X ray, which is especially useful for viewing dense structures such as bone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

But where she was something of a ray of sunshine in “Reacher,” she has been loaded here with issues, including a dying father who isn’t telling her something.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Ms Mullan described her daughter Amelia as "a ray of sunshine," who "had the most beautiful curls and a creativity that shone through everything that she did".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The JetZero aircraft looks more like a manta ray than the tube-with-wings blueprint that has been the default for over 70 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

“A ray of light can come in any color,” Frank says.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Because neutrons behave differently from X rays, they can expose features that may be difficult or impossible to detect with other imaging technologies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Safety concerns surrounding this idea were eventually addressed through detailed reports and comparisons with ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

That day, he also saw groups of uniquely colored manta rays — some were a tan brown, and others were gray with a black stripe, called spinetail devil rays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

"There are rays of hope, especially for the crisis-stricken industry sector," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The way the branches bend overhead and bright sunlight turns to pinpoint rays of light.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

The initiative seeks to restore the rayed bean mussel, which has not been found in Kentucky waters in more than 40 years.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2020

Some of the brighter craters are rayed, like Tycho and Copernicus on the Moon, and many have central peaks.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Instead, our results imply that derived colour-pattern elements have introgressed recently between both rayed and postman forms of and .

From Nature ● Jul. 4, 2012

For a reciprocal test, we used the same H. melpomene races as the ingroup to compare with rayed Heliconius timareta florencia at the B/D region.

From Nature ● Jul. 4, 2012

Fountain of light, that rayed afar, Fills the vast urns of sun and star!

From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various

Ever since Colonel Lindbergh flew one across the Atlantic in 1927, most U. S. aeronautical engineers have been developing air-cooled, radial engines with cylinders raying out like huge wheel-spokes around a short, chunky crankshaft.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was looking around the hem to see if the quilt maker had stitched in her initials, but the edges were all raying away.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Had to shift our quarters continually, because Mercutian fliers would pick us up with their search-beams, and start raying.

From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner

Couldst thou but see how thou appearest to me, what a wonderful form penetrates thy shape, and everywhere is raying towards me, thou wouldst not fear age.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg

There is no power in it, or raying from it, to make a man obey any one of its commandments.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren