mushroom cloud
noun
: a mushroom-shaped cloud
specifically
: one caused by the explosion of a nuclear weapon
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The unknown model had cotton cut into the shape of a mushroom cloud pinned to her bathing suit.
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
In a one-minute silent tribute, the city remembered the widescale death and destruction caused by the 10,000-pound bomb, which created a huge mushroom cloud that rose to more than 60,000 feet.
—Mai Nishiyama, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
On the screen behind Vasyl, a mushroom cloud burrows into the sky – a Russian airstrike trying to target Ukrainian operators.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 29 July 2025
The July 1 incident sparked at a pyrotechnics facility damaged crops, buildings and other properties within a half mile of the fire that cast a mushroom cloud over the region.
—Ishani Desai
july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
In a one-minute silent tribute, the city remembered the widescale death and destruction caused by the 10,000-pound bomb, which created a huge mushroom cloud that rose to more than 60,000 feet.
—Mai Nishiyama, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
On the screen behind Vasyl, a mushroom cloud burrows into the sky – a Russian airstrike trying to target Ukrainian operators.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 29 July 2025
The July 1 incident sparked at a pyrotechnics facility damaged crops, buildings and other properties within a half mile of the fire that cast a mushroom cloud over the region.
—Ishani Desai
july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
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“Mushroom cloud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mushroom%20cloud. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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