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Recent Examples of nuclear
Trump has pledged to take a hard line on Iran and will be re-entering the White House roughly six years after unilaterally pulling the U.S. out of the Iranian nuclear deal and re-imposing sweeping sanctions on the country.
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Natasha Turak, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
No country has achieved this without a lot of nuclear, hydro, natural gas, or coal.
—Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
On Sunday, Han had a phone call with President Biden, discussing the political situation in South Korea and regional security challenges including North Korea’s nuclear program.
—Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Expect tough questions about climate, the nuclear arsenal and public lands when energy and environmental nominees hit the Senate dais next year.
—Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
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Natasha Turak, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
No country has achieved this without a lot of nuclear, hydro, natural gas, or coal.
—Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
On Sunday, Han had a phone call with President Biden, discussing the political situation in South Korea and regional security challenges including North Korea’s nuclear program.
—Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Expect tough questions about climate, the nuclear arsenal and public lands when energy and environmental nominees hit the Senate dais next year.
—Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
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The weapon will now undergo ballistic testing, New York Police Department Chief Joseph Kenny said on Monday.Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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After Israel bombed an Iranian consulate building in Syria in April, Iran launched its unprecedented direct attack, firing more than 350 ballistic and cruise missiles and drones straight at its enemy.Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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Williamson said earlier this week that his hamstring is completely healed, but his mental state remains a work in progress.oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
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Sign up That Torrance pushed Vial and Eduardo to such mental anguish does not surprise immigrant-justice advocates.María Inés Taracena, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
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The counselor also told police Trotman had had a previous psychotic break in which he was found wandering the woods.Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
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Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
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Photo: Disney Beyond that, Disney films also had a berserk sense of spectacle and showmanship that distinguished them.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2024
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Which, of course, drove the audience completely berserk.Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
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At first glance, Torres’ debut film seems like a quirky, millennial visual feast about a desperate El Salvadorian and a maniac artist.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
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None of this pays off in any fashion, as potentially interesting plot threads are rapidly dropped in favor of a typical maniac plot.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2023
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Christmas Evil plays like a demented piece of outsider art that takes the idea of a killer Santa to some pretty extreme places — including an ending that has to be seen to be believed.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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Watching him dance and sing with a room full of demented goblins never really gets old.Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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With his shock of spiky hair and adrenaline rushes, Smith turns a corporate villain into a lunatic new-wave frontman.Charles McNultyTheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
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The first personality is the lunatic, chaotic artist, with no limits.John Bleasdale, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
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The same is true of their treatment of Number One, Luther, who is gravely harmed on a doomed solo mission and injected with a life-saving experimental serum that transforms his body into that of an ape-human hybrid.Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
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Each faces resistance from his own side, since anti-ape prejudice is still part of the formerly dominant species’ worldview.New York Times, New York Times, 13 May 2021
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“Nuclear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuclear. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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