Eric Massa

That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me.

American Politician

David E. Sanger

It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.

American Journalist

Michael Arrington

Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.

American Businessman

Park Yeon-mi

North Korea spends billions of dollars to make this nuke test system. If they would spend just 20 percent of what they spent on making nuclear weapons, nobody would have to die in North Korea from hunger but the regime chose to make us hungry.

North Korean Activist

Craig Kilborn

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

Entertainer

Barry Gardiner

We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.

British Politician

John Keegan

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

English Historian

Using 'nuke' implies a destructive and often deadly action, taken very seriously in global politics.

Serious Connotation

Be careful not to joke about 'nuking' places or people - it can be seen as offensive or insensitive.

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'Nuke' used to describe microwaving is very informal and best suited for casual conversations.

Casual Expression

'Nuke' suggests a quick way to heat food, emphasizing speed and convenience over cooking method.

Fast Cooking

In computing, 'nuke' expresses irreversible damage or the complete removal of data.

Technical Damage

Describing a system as 'nuked' means it has failed completely and may need rebuilding.

Total Failure

'Nuke' reflects high-stakes international relations and can indicate geopolitical tensions.

Political Tensions

The term carries historical weight, often associated with past events like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Historical Weight

 which contained as many soy and corn products as could be crammed into it. Think of the frozen chicken nugget. The chicken is fed corn, and then its meat is ground up, and mixed with more corn products to add bulk and binder, and then it's fried in corn oil. All you do is nuke it. What could be better?

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 two major movies hit theaters both featuring killer impacts from outer space in armageddon bruce willis leads a ragtag crew to nuke an oncoming asteroid which by the way is something that only works in the movies and in deep impact president morgan freeman gives a rousing speech after

Lucy in the Sky with...

 and they are at exactly the same locations. What does this tell us? It means that if we can map all these locations across villages, we could actually crush these populations by just a single blow. Kind of, you know, bomb-spray them or nuke them out.

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 to set our Earth in a cosmic context. And let me just run through a few slides. This was the impact that happened last week on a comet. If they'd sent a nuke, it would have been rather more spectacular than what actually happened last Monday.

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 do not build a reformer on the ocean. And now I think reformers are safe. Move them inland and on very stable ground and build the reformers. There isn't anything wrong with nuke. You're going to have to have energy. There is no question.

T. Boone Pickens: Let's...

 That's a tough one. There's no question. Poverty, by an order of magnitude, a huge order of magnitude, unless someone can show that there's, you know, terrorists with a nuke are really likely to come. The latest I've read, seen, thought

Why we make bad...

 take this newly hatched assassin bug baby called a nymph to grow the nymph must have the blood of a vertebrate and so the nymphs first act after finding its legs is to go vertebrate hunting Fisher reptile will do but the nuke was

Assassin Bug vs. Vampire...

 nuclear missiles there could be a nuke on or nuclear water around the world ruin our crops and with a team more and more devastation okay and then we'll do this last one how do you smush all of this information into your brain

Geographic Bee 2010 - SD...

 do but the nuke was born near a cave in his home for both fruit bats and vampire bats this sleeping fruit bat will do nicely the nymph consensus victim's body heat it punctures the bats wingtip with

Assassin Bug vs. Bat PIPE...

 So you nuke me, I nuke you, and we both lose. So in a way, there's a stalemate. No one uses their weapons, and we're all safe. But this theory has real questions.

Nuke

To attack or destroy with nuclear weapons.

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To cook or heat food in a microwave oven.

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To completely destroy or eliminate something.

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A nuclear weapon.

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