emanation

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Recent Examples of emanation Both shield and shell are created in order to protect the tender flesh within, but a shield is the result of a huge amount of human labor, mining and refining and beating of the hot metal, and a shell is a natural emanation of the beast that builds it. Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024 Lacking this, other than emanations and penumbras, how exactly are bond prices supposed to measure NRSRO ratings in basis points? Barnet Sherman, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 The blanket presidential immunity ordained in Trump v. United States was not even discernable in the penumbras, emanations or subtext of the Constitution. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024 This legal theology, conjured from the penumbras and emanations of past antiregulatory decisions, insists that sizable regulations require patently-impossible-to-acquire congressional authorization. The Editors, Scientific American, 10 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for emanation
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Noun
  • Microfiber emissions remain an important area where knowledge still needs building, along with biodiversity and ecosystem rejuvenation, and community resilience.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Metal manufacturing—with its record of high energy consumption, high volumes of water usage and high greenhouse gas emissions—is no doubt one of the more environmentally challenging industries.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
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
  • Strong inflows from Asia more than offset outflows in the Americas, where UBS this week applied for a US banking license.
    Reuters 18 hr ago, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • That outflow emerges at a layer called the tropopause, which marks the boundary between the troposphere (where Earth’s weather happens) and the overlying stratosphere.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Reopening the government would also restart the flow of economic data.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That was a cool play, but in the regular flow of the offense, Underwood had trouble connecting on anything downfield.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Martinez says of the outpouring of support.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The devastation caused by Melissa drew an outpouring of support from across the world, with some countries pledging support in the form of cash, food aid and rescue teams.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Emanation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emanation. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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