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
  • According to public records, the inspection also found that GKN used materials containing hexavalent chrome, a dangerous carcinogen; used coatings containing toxic air contaminants; and exceeded facility-wide volatile organic compound emissions.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 23 May 2026
  • In 2023, Newsom announced California's landmark lawsuit against major oil companies, accusing them of deceiving the public about climate change and linking fossil fuel emissions to worsening heat waves, droughts and devastating wildfires.
    Kenny Choi, CBS News, 23 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
  • 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
  • Three other spillways will be rebuilt for greater capacity and flow.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2026
  • The same setup flow works on phone, desktop, and CLI because the surface — chat — is the same.
    Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • And for the outpouring of love from everyone who expressed concern and care for me.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • Controversy at The Barstow School The result, sparked that day, has been an outpouring of student and parental support for Muhammad, whose two children attend Barstow’s elementary school, and a call for the head of school and Board of Directors to reinstate him.
    Eric Adler May 14, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026

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“Emanation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emanation. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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