ray
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Cosmic ray energies are measured in electron volts, a unit describing the energy an electron gains when its electrical potential increases by one volt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
“That’s why we keep seeing these pullbacks on any ray of hope.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Once abundant along Ghana's shores, esene, or guitarfish -- with the flattened body of a ray and the tail of a shark -- have become increasingly difficult to find.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
"There wasn't a single ray of light coming through a crack in the rubble; despair threatened to overwhelm me," Cordido told AFP from his daughter's house in Caracas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
He holds it up as if to inspect it, the shard glimmering in a ray of light...and that’s when I notice what he already has.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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He cautions that photographers should be wary of prolonged exposure to the Sun's UV rays.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Experts recommend specifically designed eclipse glasses which filter UV rays that meet the standard ISO 12312-2:2015.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
They calculated latitude from the angle of the sun’s rays and tested the ocean’s depth with lead weights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
For that reason, sources producing gamma rays below the PeV range can be considered possible PeVatron candidates.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
The turtle ignored him and settled down on the sand, where she lay sunning herself, occasionally moving her head as if to catch the best rays.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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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
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
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
The white beam of light rayed out from a thick grove of shrubs and small trees on the other side of the big yard.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 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
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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
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Still philosophy is saying: "Now that hope with life seems gone, Some are cursing, some are praying, God smiles raying in the dawn!"
From Days and Dreams Poems by Madison J. Cawein
There is a pale bit of moon towards morning, then faint streaks raying up in the east, and sounds of life once more.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas
I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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