irradiated

past tense of irradiate

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Recent Examples of irradiated First fuel removal The samples were irradiated using the Fission Accelerated Steady-state Testing (FAST) method. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026 The sterile flies are irradiated and released en masse, designed to blanket a region experiencing an outbreak. Evan Bush, NBC news, 7 June 2026 Vector control districts serving Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties have irradiated males and released them in recent years. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 Dirty Electrons For six years, Bouquet and Kéraval studied two sets of sealed, irradiated soil samples — one of normal soil, and one that was supplemented with glucose. Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026 Most of the food comes ready to eat, having been rehydrated, thermostabilized using heat to destroy harmful microorganisms and enzymes, or irradiated to kill bacteria. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026 Boyd notes that the power in the beam matters but so does the material that is irradiated. Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026 Clooney — face wrapped in a giant gray beard — plays Augustine, a scientist at an Arctic research station that's still standing after an unnamed global catastrophe leaves the Earth irradiated. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025 Set two-hundred years after atomic armageddon, residents of Vault-Tec’s network of luxury fallout habitats begin to explore the radioactive territory outside their shelters and discover a nightmarish world of militant factions, irradiated creatures, vicious raiders, and feral monsters. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irradiated
Verb
  • Fantastic, illumined by periodic excursions into surrealism, as when the crew of a mysterious UFO boards a transpacific Kahuna Airlines jet midflight.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The extended chords radiated color, but despite the influence of hip-hop and video-game music, the playing felt less mischievous than relentlessly mechanical.
    Rae-Aila Crumble, Pitchfork, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Gomez radiated in another stunning look for a Rare Beginnings campaign video.
    Christina Perrier, InStyle, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • The survey illuminated something much more interesting about the modern midlife woman.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 31 July 2026
  • Moving up to whole organisms, having test subjects view the LED screen while it was illuminated by infrared pulses produced clear electroencephalogram responses in mice and clear electroretinogram responses in human volunteers.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Greece’s firefighting department said Sunday the fire apparently began from sparks emitted by a faulty power line transporting electricity from a private wind generator facility to the main electricity network.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The mouth fiddle belongs to a family of instruments that are orally modulated, lending qualities of the human voice to the sound waves emitted by a vibrating string.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Harbaugh lit one more friendly fire under his team at the end of Thursday’s jog-through practice.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The Plan Commission report said while, due to the nature of the development, the gas station would be brightly lit, the convenience store building and a heavily landscaped area to the west would block the impact of light for neighbors.
    Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But Jesus eventually heals the man and casts the demons into a herd of pigs, which tumble over a cliff and drown.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Of the 1,032,963 ballots already cast, state officials say 959,805 mail-in ballots have been received.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Officials said the man, identified as Farinacci, was released because a cause had not yet been determined, but he was later arrested and charged.
    Morgan Chesky, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2026
  • More than 112,000 absentee ballots had already been returned by the day the poll was released.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Irradiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irradiated. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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