nuke
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“Just imagine having to reason about a nuke that could also solve cancer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Anything short of that is merely kicking the nuke down the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
If that’s not interesting, maybe DHS could focus more on making sure that the Pentagon’s nuke silos and surrounding local areas are not full of hacker-friendly holes.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2023
“You’re bringing together Wikipedia-style answers to an infinite number of questions, and that’s just going to nuke many corners of the open web.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
It doesn’t nuke you a coward because they sing it.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
If it does, Saudi Arabia probably “has an interest in keeping open the possibility of having some nukes as a deterrent” of its own, Fred says.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
“There’s I believe a growing appreciation that AIs are the new nukes, you have to have them.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
It’s helping the move from coal to fracked oil and natural gas to nukes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
These smaller nukes have received so much attention in recent years mainly because modern reactors are so costly that the U.S. and Europe have all but stopped building any.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
There are some other nukes in this group, but they are not in the majority and say nothing in their own defence.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
This command to wipe out the files as fast as possible nuked “Toy Story 2” in the time it takes to play “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
“I thought we got nuked or something,” said Rogers, 34.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
Two-up on the 18th tee, he took out a three-wood and "nuked it" according to Mickelson’s caddie, Jim 'Bones' Mackay.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024
“It’s really ironic that this piece probably got more attention than anything we normally published,” Lopez added, “even after they nuked the website.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Around five o’clock, he nuked a frozen dinner and popped the movie into the VCR.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
“But I would not subscribe to the idea of nuking the Fed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
“This is insanity,” Elba’s president says after a hawkish general played by Tracy Letts makes the case for preemptively nuking America’s foes.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
His flawed hyperloop plan, for example, or nuking the Martian poles to create an atmosphere, or basically anything he’s promised about Twitter.
From Scientific American ● May 15, 2023
Scrambling an egg is — apart from boiling water or nuking a burrito — perhaps the easiest thing a cook can do.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021
I was still fuzzy on why nuking grapes could cause a plasma ball.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
