nitroglycerin
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As if those choices were comparably distasteful when, in fact, one is vanilla and the other is nitroglycerin.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023
Roy Scheider leads an international cast as one of four outlaws who accept $10,000 and legal citizenship for the job of driving nitroglycerin on hazardous South American roads to an oil well 200 miles away.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023
And assembling a courtroom mosaic to portray a capital defendant is like handling nitroglycerin.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022
"I thought you were reaching for your emergency nitroglycerin pill," she jokes with a "ha ha old man" lightness.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021
He raised the glass and held it up before the brightest lamp, handling it as if it were nitroglycerin.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing nitroglycerin
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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