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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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
This naive setup gives the player a perfect excuse to push forward and get to New Vegas (the actual city that survived the nukes).
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Steven T. Dennis, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
However, nuking the asteroid could potentially create problems.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The military has the capability to shoot down warheads, but not at a rate that could combat multiple nukes coming toward us in a large-scale attack.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
This naive setup gives the player a perfect excuse to push forward and get to New Vegas (the actual city that survived the nukes).
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
Johnson raised concerns that nuking the filibuster could one day empower socialists, in an appearance on C-SPAN Thursday.
—Steven T. Dennis, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
However, nuking the asteroid could potentially create problems.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Nuke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuke. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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