emanation

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for emanation
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Noun
  • Northern India already has some of the world’s most polluted air, created by a toxic mix of vehicle and industrial emissions, crop residue burning, and construction dust.
    Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
  • New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act originally demanded 70% renewable electricity by 2030 and 100% zero-emission electricity by 2040.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • The environment struggles with effluence from ground sources and pollution in general that pours into the Bay.
    Louise Schiavone, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • All human activity now passes through a computational pipeline—even the sanitation worker transforms effluence into data.
    TIME, TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Bankers told me that money outflows have not been out of the ordinary.
    Alaa Shahine Salha, semafor.com, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Stockpiles Oil markets are no longer dealing with a flow disruption, but with a rapidly compounding stock shock, according to Kpler.
    Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 10 May 2026
  • The Moon in Aquarius moves through your 3rd House and trines Venus in Gemini, making communication and problem-solving flow naturally.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Amid an outpouring of shock after their deaths, Traveler’s Cart invited employees, friends and supporters to pay their respect outside.
    Aviva Bechky, Houston Chronicle, 11 May 2026
  • Greenblatt’s announcement was followed by an outpouring of memories and tributes from leaders throughout the Jewish world and in Israel.
    Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026

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“Emanation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emanation. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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