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
  • Gomez radiated in another stunning look for a Rare Beginnings campaign video.
    Christina Perrier, InStyle, 28 July 2026
  • Team staff pulled him off the field at a clearly predesignated time, and his quiet, simmering frustration radiated across the entire facility.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 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
  • Powder emitted from an airbag deployment in Hampton’s car could have been an irritant to Hampton’s eyes, Brissette suggested.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
  • When comets come around the sun, the dust emitted as the debris collides with Earth's atmosphere forms a trail that creates fiery, colorful streaks in the sky, according to NASA.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • If The Odyssey lit the fuse, Spider-Man is the looming detonation.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026
  • An element of the proposal that led many to advocate for City Council approval was a 17-acre community park featuring a playground, indoor gym, lighted sports fields, pickleball courts and a dog park.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • The reveal of Brie Larson as Carol Danvers in Hall H in 2016 was big, not just as a casting announcement but as an unprecedented statement of intent.
    Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • There was no Multiverse Saga-level announcement of years to come; Feige chose to eschew from any television updates (sorry, VisionQuest) in favor of some movie casting news.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 26 July 2026
Verb
  • Hur, following his investigation into Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, released a lengthy report in February 2024 that concluded no criminal charges were warranted against Biden.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
  • Under Georgia law, a judge can decide whether a defendant serves that sentence in prison or on probation, so Colin Gray could be released Thursday.
    Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

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“Irradiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irradiated. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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