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radioactive

[rey-dee-oh-ak-tiv] / ˌreɪ di oʊˈæk tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
active
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After Bankman-Fried went to prison, the EA brand became radioactive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The parent bodies represented by these meteorites contained so much radioactive aluminum-26 that they eventually melted completely.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Prison bosses later faced formal censure proceedings after inmates and staff were exposed to dangerous levels of the naturally occurring radioactive gas.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

That radioactive spider that transformed Peter Parker into Spider-Man could have bitten the class moron just as easily.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

The trees and other plants—estimated to total almost 3 million cubic feet of radioactive litter—lay in massive brush piles on the plant grounds, held in place by heavy sheets of white plastic.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland



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