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
Thank whatever god responsible that never happened, because the devastation of dropping just one nuke would be so horrendous that we can barely comprehend it.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
Anything short of that is merely kicking the nuke down the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
“The implicit message is not just: ‘We could nuke Los Angeles.’
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
There was a problem with the turkey—not enough time to nuke both packages—but one would serve.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
“There’s I believe a growing appreciation that AIs are the new nukes, you have to have them.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 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
No U.S. surface vessel has carried nukes since the end of the Cold War.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
It’s helping the move from coal to fracked oil and natural gas to nukes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
“The clans have been lobbing nukes at that sphere for the past two weeks, and they haven’t even scratched it. How are you going to get it to ‘drop on its own’?”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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
Meanwhile, the real Andy Byron’s real wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, nuked the “Byron” from her name on Facebook and then deactivated her account entirely amid an onslaught of comments from the public, according to Newsweek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
“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
The Vice website remains there for the clicking, which is a bit better than nuking it from the internet altogether, as the Messenger did when it burned out after less than a year of operation.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2024
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
