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as in to radiate
to throw or give off
nuclei that emit gamma rays
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Recent Examples of emit
The warmers also work fast and start emitting heat within five seconds of being activated.
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Catherine Garcia, theweek, 5 Dec. 2024
But asteroids aren’t the only objects that emit heat.
—Toshi Hirabayashi, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
Koch’s subsidiary, Georgia-Pacific, made formaldehyde and many products that emit it.
—Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
This special reading light emits a warm, gentle amber light that is reminiscent of candle light and does not emit any blue light, which supports the circadian rhythm of late night readers.
—Carina Brackett, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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Catherine Garcia, theweek, 5 Dec. 2024
But asteroids aren’t the only objects that emit heat.
—Toshi Hirabayashi, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
Koch’s subsidiary, Georgia-Pacific, made formaldehyde and many products that emit it.
—Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
This special reading light emits a warm, gentle amber light that is reminiscent of candle light and does not emit any blue light, which supports the circadian rhythm of late night readers.
—Carina Brackett, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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Acute pancreatitis causes severe upper abdominal pain that radiates to the back.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 22 Dec. 2024
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That complacency radiates in every aspect of the creative process of developing our stories.Kui Mwai, Essence, 20 Dec. 2024
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Passengers also told the outlet that Virgil uttered racial slurs and attacked two crew members.Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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Twenty-two years later, Maggie’s still only uttered a single word — daddy (voiced by Elizabeth Taylor, no less) — but that’s all that needs to be said. 33.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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Of late, the tensions in Iran, Israel and Ukraine have cast a long shadow on trade finance, reconfiguring risk perceptions, financial flows and market strategies.Pushkar Mukewar, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The movie has also cast Colman Domingo as patriarch Joe Jackson and Nia Long as Michael’s mother, Katherine Jackson. Bugonia (Nov. 7) Poor Things and The Favourite filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest bizarre sci-fi comedy is actually a remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
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The watch is a perpetual calendar that sets its functions into its own subdial structures emanating from the case.Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024
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Through a period of trial and error that lasted many months, staff designed a shield to retrofit each light and prevent its glow from emanating upward onto the sky.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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Authorities did not release information as to a motive or how the men knew each other.Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
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So The Batman 2, which would release after the Brave and the Bold, would be a flashback from The Brave and the Bold, given that obviously Pattinson is nowhere near that point in his story currently, and The Penguin timeline confirms that.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Emit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emit. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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