radiate
verb (used without object)
to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
have been radiating
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present perfect progressiveof radiate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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For that to happen, the system must have been radiating energy in the form of gravitational waves—an insight that earned Joe Taylor and Russell Hulse the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 3, 2017
Nora and I and the lieutenant were joined later by Gimpy Gordon, who might have been radiating childlike wonder and a circus-air of excitement at actually being at the Derby.
From The Big Fix by Bernklau
