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Recent Examples of emanation
Another way of saying this is that the radiant or emanation point of most meteor showers appears highest in the sky before dawn.
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Dec. 2025
This perhaps had something to do with the curious luminance of the boy’s face, as in paintings of saints, as though the glow were the emanation of grace.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
The Dalai Lama himself is believed by his followers to be an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddhist god of compassion.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 July 2025
And the near-vacuum of space is filled with low-level ambient radio emanations, known as cosmic noise, which come from distant quasars, the sun, and the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
—Sven Bilén, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2020
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Dec. 2025
This perhaps had something to do with the curious luminance of the boy’s face, as in paintings of saints, as though the glow were the emanation of grace.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
The Dalai Lama himself is believed by his followers to be an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddhist god of compassion.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 July 2025
And the near-vacuum of space is filled with low-level ambient radio emanations, known as cosmic noise, which come from distant quasars, the sun, and the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
—Sven Bilén, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emanation
Noun
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Early on, astronomers looked at optical light, specifically strong absorption lines from hot, young A-type stars, combined with a distinct lack of emission lines that signal active star formation.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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The ceramic industry has huge carbon emissions because the materials are made at such high temperatures and pressures.—
Caitlin Kennedy,
Scientific American,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The environment struggles with effluence from ground sources and pollution in general that pours into the Bay.—
Louise Schiavone,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2024
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All human activity now passes through a computational pipeline—even the sanitation worker transforms effluence into data.—
TIME,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2024
Noun
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Bringing retail investors home Seoul has implemented measures to try and stem outflows, with the country's finance ministry announcing tax breaks for individual investors who sell their foreign holdings.—
Lim Hui Jie,Blair Baek,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2026
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Bankers told me that money outflows have not been out of the ordinary.—
Alaa Shahine Salha,
semafor.com,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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At the end of regret-flow plotlines, husbands tend to beg their wives for forgiveness by dropping to their knees.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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The sand filters are back-flushed once per day by reversing the flow of sea water through the sand filter(s).—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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The plea deal comes after an outpouring of support for Ceballo from the largely conservative town, which rallied around the former mayor as one of its own.—
Matthew Kelly
April 20,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2026
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Ten years later, with an outpouring of fan requests and a wave of sweet nostalgia that couldn't be stopped, the soft-and-chewy cakes made their triumphant return to store shelves in early 2022.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Emanation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emanation. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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