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
  • The state attorneys union filed a lawsuit against departments on Friday, arguing that California agencies did not comply with the state’s signature environmental law when directing workers to return to government offices, which will result in more carbon emissions from commuters.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2026
  • These are emission nebulae, or clouds of ionized gas that emit light.
    Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 5 June 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
  • Over the last week, Indonesia’s Finance Ministry has purchased roughly $113 million of government bonds each day to tame the bond market and limit capital outflows.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Chinese deeptech Winnie Wu, head of APAC equity strategy at BofA Global Research, said that, despite outflows from China into South Korea and Taiwan, the country is better positioned from a flow perspective.
    Michael Considine, CNBC, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • At the heart of this experience is the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary, a 3,000-acre preserve, where center director Marcos Stoltzfus and his team serve as planners and guides, coordinating both conservation efforts and the flow of tens of thousands of visitors each season.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • The converter manages the flow of electricity between the battery and the vehicle's various electrical systems.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Donations fill every room Staff and volunteers say they are overwhelmed by the outpouring of clothing, shoes, baby items, bedding, and other essentials.
    Dawn White, CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • Arsenal touched down in Budapest in high spirits, having clinched the Premier League for the first time in 22 years and witnessed an outpouring of wild celebration from north London to far beyond.
    Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 29 May 2026

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“Emanation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emanation. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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