mushroom cloud
noun
: a mushroom-shaped cloud
specifically
: one caused by the explosion of a nuclear weapon
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Sand from the desert below was swept up into the mushroom cloud.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
And just as nuclear blasts produce a distinctive mushroom cloud, uncontrolled wildfires can be powerful enough to generate their own weather.
—Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Debris roared through the air and rained down two miles away from the scene that was accompanied by an ominous nuclear-like mushroom cloud that rose high into the sky above the harbor.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
Deterring crime does not require the threat of a mushroom cloud.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
And just as nuclear blasts produce a distinctive mushroom cloud, uncontrolled wildfires can be powerful enough to generate their own weather.
—Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Debris roared through the air and rained down two miles away from the scene that was accompanied by an ominous nuclear-like mushroom cloud that rose high into the sky above the harbor.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
Deterring crime does not require the threat of a mushroom cloud.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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“Mushroom cloud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mushroom%20cloud. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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