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mushroom cloud

noun as in large ominous cloud

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We’ve all seen photographs of a mushroom cloud released by an atomic bomb or the panic sent worldwide after nuclear disasters at Fukishima or Chernobyl.

Creating what was described as a “Niagara Falls in reverse,” Baker lifted vessels up into its watery mushroom cloud before dumping them — and a lethal radioactive soup — back down on the ships still afloat.

It had been flown without a crew through a mushroom cloud during A-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, a way to gather data without endangering fliers.

The mushroom cloud of Verdansk glows in the distance, and there is also a new point of interest on the map called “Control Center” where there was previously a building under construction.

Then a 20-story-high mushroom cloud of smoke came rolling up the street toward us.

He ran outside witnessing what he later described as a “giant black mushroom cloud.”

He went to Richland High School, whose mascot was the Bombers and whose logo was, and remains, a mushroom cloud.

Fail, and most experts think it is just a matter of time before one of these capitals disappears in a mushroom cloud.

Get with the program or the next attack would be a “mushroom cloud.”

The gorgeous mushroom cloud of the atomic explosion looked alive and threatening like those Djinni once banned by Solomon.

The appearance of the magma under them, almost like a mushroom cloud in shape, was pretty ominous.

Then came the single blinding flash that spelled the end of Kanato, and afterward a billowing mushroom cloud.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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