nuke
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Anything short of that is merely kicking the nuke down the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Stopping the nuke would give them more time to gather intelligence, but we learn there’s only a 61% chance of intercepting it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Musk realized that soon enough and tried to nuke the deal with specious arguments about bots and mismanagement.
From Slate ● May 28, 2025
By then the boys are ready to nuke the deal.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
His own term for this type of action was nuke.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
“There’s I believe a growing appreciation that AIs are the new nukes, you have to have them.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
All of which suggests a remarkable Lazarus-like quality to Tehran’s nukes that ought to have us even more alarmed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
In case of a Soviet attack, nukes dispersed in thousands of miles of cut-and-cover tunnels could be launched within 20 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Not only had the nukes made those ships a more tempting target, they were more trouble than they were worth, requiring specially trained crews and special security procedures.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
“They’re us. If we’d had nukes instead of a few lumps of coal,” he answers.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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," Mr Rogers told the local newspaper.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
“I thought we got nuked or something,” said Rogers, 34.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
The United States has ruled, nuked, resettled, been attacked from and fought wars on the smaller islands scattered across the Pacific over a span of more than 100 years.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
It was nuked by the Ebola Reston virus.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
“But I would not subscribe to the idea of nuking the Fed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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
Yes, today’s helicopter and tiger parents were once latchkey kids, nuking solitary French bread pizza dinners in the microwave.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 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
