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
Doggone it: Space is trying to nuke Russia!
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2024
“The implicit message is not just: ‘We could nuke Los Angeles.’
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
We’ll wait a few years and then we’ll— ANGELA: I have to nuke this phone.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
“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
Brandishing nukes had nothing to do with it.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Players can freely control Zack in 3-D space, swinging his giant sword at a monster and dodging its attacks in between nuking it with magic spells.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
There are also better ways to profit off of Twitter’s power users than nuking the verification system.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2022
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
