How to Use atomic in a Sentence

atomic

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  • Putting the eco-friendly stake in the ground is the first step; then there’s taking many, many atomic steps toward it.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Iran also isn’t slowing down advances in its atomic program, further raising the stakes in talks.
    — Tia Goldenberg, ajc, 12 Dec. 2021
  • It may be argued atomic bombs did quantifiably less damage at a vastly greater cost in resources and the lives of scientists making them.
    — Denis Mandich, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • And once the 1960s kicked off, the material offered the perfect structure and shine for the atomic looks of Courrèges.
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Gamow was a pioneer in the study of atomic nuclei, while Hoyle famously theorized the formation of elements in stellar furnaces.
    — John Gribbin, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Iran has resumed production of equipment for advanced centrifuges at a site the U.N.’s atomic-energy agency has been unable to monitor for months.
    — WSJ, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Get some wet wipes: The pretzel is an atomic shade of orange.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That’s what the atomic clocks have been measuring since they were first used in 1973.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Or at least that’s what my own atomic childhood taught me.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • It’s at least a hundred times more deadly than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Seed catalogues sold seeds brought to you by the best scientists of the atomic era.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The eleventh, a set of atomic clocks in Munich, brings in a discussion of the morality of war.
    — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • By the time of the Cold War, its inner core was re-adapted as an atomic shelter behind a four-ton door.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Quantum atomic clocks are an integral part of the search for dark matter in a key way.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2022
  • My generation learned the atomic half-life of cesium-137.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The area is made up of three giant bunches of cold atomic gas called molecular clouds.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Washington expects more atomic moves from Mr. Putin in the days ahead.
    — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Scientists began measuring the length of each day in the 1960s with the advent of atomic clocks.
    — Sarah Raza, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • At the atomic level, that's true—but hydrogen is never found in its pure state.
    — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 26 Sep. 2022
  • A month later, the weapons were used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Fusion is the process by which two atomic nuclei combine to form a single heavier one.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The changes in the tunneling current can be resolved into an image of the atomic surface.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2023
  • If a truce is reached, the atomic agency will need to perform a proper inspection.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Believe it or not, that atomic fireball on the table in front of Biden is actually a cake.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
  • They were also constructed of ‘50s atomic nightmares and a fear of science run amok.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • On the contrary, the tremendous power of atomic fission was already known when World War II began.
    — Readers, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Because they are just bound together by those very strong, atomic ties.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 30 Sep. 2022
  • That’s in addition to Mechagodzilla, who plays a bigger role here than the fire-breathing atomic metaphor that inspired him.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The bubble of ionized atomic hydrogen was pushed out from a very luminous Wolf-Rayet star.
    — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
  • At the narrative core of both books are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand — the Japanese civilians on the ground and the American flyers in the air.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024

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