EMANATED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

emanated

verb

past tense of emanate

as in radiated

to throw or give off honeysuckle emanating such a sweet scent

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Recent Examples of emanated As the sun set over Evanston on Friday, a golden glow emanated from the limestone exterior of Ryan Field, which was mobbed for the first time by the Wildcat faithful. — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026 An occasional bird would chirp in the distance, but the forest emanated an eerie stillness, said Young, a research ecologist at the University of California, Davis. — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026 The Sleepy Hollow saga emanated from a small New York town about a hundred miles from Hartford. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026 Similar warnings have emanated from Florida, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 This success emanated from the partnerships formed between business, labor, government, academia, the nonprofit sector and the media. — Arne Carlson, Twin Cities, 30 Aug. 2026 Another interpretation is that people would rather spend their limited time on prose that emanated from another human mind. — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026 Persistent cheers emanated from outside the locker room, where kids flanked the ramp to see the Ravens take the practice field. — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The scent emanated from an installation in a greenhouse in the center of the city, filled with hay and senses-scrambling atmosphere from a fog machine. — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2026

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As Edie, the sister of one of Brando’s fellow dock workers who is murdered, Saint radiated a palpable chemistry with her costar, the characters’ burgeoning romance undeniable.

— Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
The jet carries 500,000 times the energy radiated by the sun and explains the mystery of how feeding black holes become such powerful cosmic particle accelerators and generate such high-energy gamma-ray photons.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of radiated

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Nobel laureate Ernest Rutherford had already shown that radioactive materials sometimes emitted particles, naturally changing the makeup of their atomic nuclei.

— Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
The physicists used that data to reconstruct the angles at which electrons and muons were emitted to infer the spins of the original Z bosons that preceded them.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of emitted

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There’s also the heating and cooling system, wherein heat generated by the hotel’s air-conditioning units is used to produce hot water rather than being released into the atmosphere.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Russian officials have not released figures on damage to the country's oil infrastructure.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026

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