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Recent Examples of give off
The signal was a puzzle, because white dwarfs like the one at the heart of the Helix Nebula, designated WD 2226-210, don't normally give off strong X-ray signals.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2025
This Is When to Start Planting Tomatoes for a Bountiful Summer Harvest
Baobab Saint-Tropez Body and Hand Lotion
The lotion’s fragrance features a top note of mint, giving off an energizing quality, along with thyme and basil.
—Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2025
Traveling at high speeds through the atmosphere, hypersonic missiles should generate tremendous heat, giving off a strong infrared signal to track from space.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2025
This can cause those magnetic fields to collide and release energetic particles close to the speed of light, giving off bright bursts of radiation that are ejected outward, similar to that of a solar flare from the sun, Yusef-Zadeh says.
—Chandelis Duster, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2025
This Is When to Start Planting Tomatoes for a Bountiful Summer Harvest
Baobab Saint-Tropez Body and Hand Lotion
The lotion’s fragrance features a top note of mint, giving off an energizing quality, along with thyme and basil.
—Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2025
Traveling at high speeds through the atmosphere, hypersonic missiles should generate tremendous heat, giving off a strong infrared signal to track from space.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2025
This can cause those magnetic fields to collide and release energetic particles close to the speed of light, giving off bright bursts of radiation that are ejected outward, similar to that of a solar flare from the sun, Yusef-Zadeh says.
—Chandelis Duster, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for give off
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Most stars emit a continuous spectrum as well, but not all astronomical objects do.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2025
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Natural gas is a fossil fuel that tends to produce fewer greenhouse gases than coal but emits methane, a powerful global warming agent.—
Andrew Freedman,
Axios,
12 Mar. 2025
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Hiring managers are venting their frustrations on social media over the rise of AI cheaters, saying that those who get caught are eliminated from contention.—
Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
9 Mar. 2025
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As such, anger can often get vented towards the wrong person, in this case, the person returning the wallet.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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The euphoria courses through my body as the blood drips down my legs.—
Andy Collinson,
Health,
19 Mar. 2025
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Each of these works has a crenulated indentation and a line descending it (or drip as the case may be).—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Conversation flowed into dinner, where the crowd discovered another accessory waiting for them: a luggage tag, ready for the next trip.—
Kristen Tauer,
WWD,
14 Mar. 2025
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On the first floor, the chef’s kitchen with Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances flows into the dining room.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
13 Mar. 2025
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And, the Pentagon plans to discharge transgender military members and recruits.—
CNN,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025
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Before his arrest, he was discharged from military officer cadet training school in Virginia for psychological reasons, Stuart said.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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That wasn’t strictly true—we’d passed at least one lady sipping cocktails at the bar, and a few more eventually trickled in to be seated for dinner—but the room was, on each of my visits, overwhelmingly a room of men.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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Elon Musk’s cost-cutting crusade is trickling down to U.S. statehouses.—
Bloomberg News,
Boston Herald,
8 Mar. 2025
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