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Recent Examples of irradiation
And despite Mercury’s intense irradiation, there are deep, cold craters near its poles that never see sunlight and harbor water ice.
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Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2026
The irradiation process creates a fusible cleavage product that remains on the paper’s surface.
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Etiido Uko
march 28,
New Atlas,
28 Mar. 2026
Sometimes irradiation gets thrown into the mix.
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Sara Payan,
Rolling Stone,
25 Feb. 2026
Breast cancer surgeons receive the same amount regardless of whether a patient gets IORT, whole breast irradiation or partial breast irradiation.
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Gretchen Morgenson,
NBC news,
7 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for irradiation
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2026
The irradiation process creates a fusible cleavage product that remains on the paper’s surface.
—
Etiido Uko
march 28,
New Atlas,
28 Mar. 2026
Sometimes irradiation gets thrown into the mix.
—
Sara Payan,
Rolling Stone,
25 Feb. 2026
Breast cancer surgeons receive the same amount regardless of whether a patient gets IORT, whole breast irradiation or partial breast irradiation.
—
Gretchen Morgenson,
NBC news,
7 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for irradiation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irradiation
Noun
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Obstacle avoidance is critical, as is collecting visual data of plant health and lighting conditions (natural and artificial LED illumination) for correlations over time, to improve yield.
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Inside, a string of skylights will provide almost all the natural illumination the library would ever need, held up by walls made solely of compressed earth.
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Her exhibit design vision, envisaged in partnership with partner Paul Cournet and his studio Cloud, incorporated luminescence and hues that radiated from the gems, dictating the color palette of purple, green, yellow and pink.
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In a new study published in PLOS, researchers analyzed 161 fossils with a new rapid and non-destructive protocol, based on stimulating the bone remains with an external energy source, called luminescence.
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Like the living room, the bedroom is painted the same flat white but the quality of the eastern light filtering into the bedroom casts a buttery glow.
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By the end of the movie, even something as natural as daylight has become suffused with a heavenly glow, and the beads of sweat on a dying body sparkle with a beauty that Emily had never been able to find anywhere else in her tragedy of a life.
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“Irradiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irradiation. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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