as in radiates
to throw or give off
honeysuckle emanating such a sweet scent
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Recent Examples of emanates
Everything — from the app that pings the cookie drops to the branding strategy that weaponizes nostalgia and novelty — emanates from this Provo facility.
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Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
But the thirty-seventh President looks like a model of restraint when compared with the forty-seventh, and his supposedly incendiary commentary anodyne by contrast to what emanates daily from the current occupant of the White House.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
The result is a cultural posture that emanates authenticity rather than advertising aspiration—a practice, not a promo.
—Simon Mainwaring, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
So that the great humanity that Toni emanates just with this face would suffice.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
My love emanates from the small fairy ring of children.
—Ellyn Gaydos
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
This woke bill is just one more example of the moral decay that emanates from Democrats who turn away from Christianity.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
What Philly’s ascension and Sunday night’s rout should remind the Dolphins and other chasers is that the fundamentals of football — offensive and defensive lines — are the starting blocks from which everything else emanates.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2025
The comedy comes from watching Matt's old school and clearly conservative outlook clash with Riley's more enlightened perspectives, while the pathos emanates from how father and daughter confront the pain of losing the family matriarch to a heart attack while jogging.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2025
Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
But the thirty-seventh President looks like a model of restraint when compared with the forty-seventh, and his supposedly incendiary commentary anodyne by contrast to what emanates daily from the current occupant of the White House.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
The result is a cultural posture that emanates authenticity rather than advertising aspiration—a practice, not a promo.
—Simon Mainwaring, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
So that the great humanity that Toni emanates just with this face would suffice.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
My love emanates from the small fairy ring of children.
—Ellyn Gaydos
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
This woke bill is just one more example of the moral decay that emanates from Democrats who turn away from Christianity.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
What Philly’s ascension and Sunday night’s rout should remind the Dolphins and other chasers is that the fundamentals of football — offensive and defensive lines — are the starting blocks from which everything else emanates.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2025
The comedy comes from watching Matt's old school and clearly conservative outlook clash with Riley's more enlightened perspectives, while the pathos emanates from how father and daughter confront the pain of losing the family matriarch to a heart attack while jogging.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emanates
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Earth’s magnetic field radiates from our planet’s poles, arcs deep into space, and creates a vast, magnetic bubble, known as the magnetosphere, that protects us from the solar wind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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This cul-de-sac at the end of civilization feels like a physical manifestation of the loneliness Carol radiates even before the cataclysmic incident.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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The former instantly adds a second layer of security against unwanted guests, and the latter emits an ultra-loud alarm while acting like a door stop wedge, scaring off any stranger who tries to enter your room.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
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On one end, oil refining emits more air pollutants than any other process in the oil industry.—
Sarah Henry,
AZCentral.com,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Here, The Athletic casts an eye over the key performers to spot any future stars.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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One argument is that these areas did not have the resources the Spanish sought to accumulate, while another casts the Kalinago as more difficult to subdue than the Taíno.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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