radioactive
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Poisoned by the overwhelmingly toxic culture of time, the film’s downward-punching humor is as radioactive as its future’s fallow fields.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Researchers there used biological accelerator spectrometry, or BioAMS, to detect radioactive markers at extremely small concentrations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
“I think he’s dangerously tactless in a radioactive topic” and “should exercise more caution,” Steven Pinker, author and Harvard University evolutionary psychologist, says of Cofnas’s rhetoric on genetics’ role in intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
All of the soil on the site, full of radioactive dust, had been paved over to prevent it from becoming airborne.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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