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  • For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant women, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things.  (source)
    nuclear = using atomic power to create a large explosion (relating to energy from the center of an atom)
  • Dad explained how they had sonar detectors kind of like the ones in nuclear submarines.  (source)
    nuclear = relating to the center of an atom (where power is created by splitting the atom)
  • The shields make it so nobody bothers with nuclear weapons anymore.  (source)
    nuclear = using atomic power to create a large explosion (relating to energy from the center of an atom)
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  • Other people said Davis was really spying on our nuclear weapons.  (source)
    nuclear = using atomic power to create a large explosion (relating to energy from the center of an atom)
  • He tried to poke it out with his fingers, but his shivering frame made him poke too far, and he disrupted the nucleus of the little fire, the burning grasses and tiny twigs separating and scattering.  (source)
    nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
  • These two hydrogen nuclei, or protons, arrived at the solar system two years ago, then reached the Earth.  (source)
    nuclei = centers of atoms
  • Languid, heat-raddled ladies, small nucleuses about whom revolve a thousand accouterments: creams, ointments to grease themselves, coloring matter in phials—black, pink, red, white, green, silver—to change the color of hair, eyes, lips, nails, brows, lashes, lids.†  (source)
  • The only reason he's being so nice to the two of you is because he believes in the sanctity of the nuclear family.  (source)
    nuclear = relating to the closest most central part (in this case, the part of family that consists of parents and their children)
  • In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel.  (source)
    nucleus = the center (or most important part)
  • The most gifted among them, who might possibly become nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.  (source)
    nuclei = centers
  • I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.  (source)
    nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
  • Our interests lie with an atom's nucleus-a mere ten-thousandth the size of the whole.†  (source)
    nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
  • The rays simply destroyed body cells — caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.  (source)
    nuclei = centers
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