atom-splitting
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In short: I’m not one of those knife geeks for whom nothing less than an atom-splitting edge is acceptable.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018
Scientists had promised that atom-splitting would be benign; why trust them in space?
From Economist ● Jul. 31, 2014
But it was her role as Cleopatra that ignited a new global gossip industry with almost atom-splitting power.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2011
American confidence is more than a state of mind; it is a muscle, a westward-ho-ing, atom-splitting, moon-landing muscle, and Osama bin Laden's autumn ambush, designed to break it, seemed only to make it stronger.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gesture is startling, atom-splitting, because it’s so unexpected, so tender.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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