1
: a nuclear weapon
2
: a nuclear-powered electric generating station
nuked; nuking
Examples of nuke in a Sentence
Verb
a pretty sizable piece of real estate would be nuked if an asteroid struck
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
This version — in which Eli Manning serves as executive producer along with Omaha Productions’ Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown and ESPN — picks up eight years after an unforgivable mistake nukes the promising football career of hotshot quarterback Russ Holliday (Powell).
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
Clearly indifferent to the irony of boosting an agency that many of them are trying to nuke out of existence, a coalition of fintech and crypto leaders issued a letter on Wednesday to Trump, imploring him to oppose the fees that banks were threatening to impose.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2025
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Noun
For that reason, researchers have put forth a number of possible plans for scientists to prevent a collision – the most prominent of which is to simply launch a bunch of nukes at the asteroid.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
This version — in which Eli Manning serves as executive producer along with Omaha Productions’ Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown and ESPN — picks up eight years after an unforgivable mistake nukes the promising football career of hotshot quarterback Russ Holliday (Powell).
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
In 2020, Republicans just nuked big chunks of their calendar and proclaimed their incumbent nearly by acclamation.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
Clearly indifferent to the irony of boosting an agency that many of them are trying to nuke out of existence, a coalition of fintech and crypto leaders issued a letter on Wednesday to Trump, imploring him to oppose the fees that banks were threatening to impose.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Nuke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuke. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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