mushroom cloud
noun
: a mushroom-shaped cloud
specifically
: one caused by the explosion of a nuclear weapon
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An explosion shakes the camera, and two skeletal buildings—the only ones visible on the entire block—collapse in a mushroom cloud.
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Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
Johnson capitalized on this unease by releasing a now infamous attack ad in which a girl plucking daisies in a field is enveloped by a mushroom cloud.
—Jeffrey A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2023
Witnesses saw a crater open and a mushroom cloud rise.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Nina dresses as an atomic bomb and her hair is a mushroom cloud.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
Johnson capitalized on this unease by releasing a now infamous attack ad in which a girl plucking daisies in a field is enveloped by a mushroom cloud.
—Jeffrey A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2023
Witnesses saw a crater open and a mushroom cloud rise.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Nina dresses as an atomic bomb and her hair is a mushroom cloud.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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“Mushroom cloud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mushroom%20cloud. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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