pronuclear
1 Americanadjective
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advocating the building or use of nuclear power plants.
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advocating the building, stockpiling, or use of nuclear weapons.
adjective
adjective
adjective
Pronunciation
See nuclear.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of pronuclear1
First recorded in 1970–75; pro- 1 + nuclear
Origin of pronuclear2
First recorded in 1885–90; pronucle(us) + -ar 1
Example Sentences
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“I wondered what the other side of this argument was. Being pronuclear war?”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2023
The pronuclear group calculated that each of Indian Point’s reactors had been producing more power than all of the wind turbines and solar panels in the state combined.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2021
Significance established using Student’s t-test. b, Representative images showing normal morphology of CRISPR–Cas9-injected pronuclear stage zygotes, eight-cell embryos and blastocysts.
From Nature ● Aug. 1, 2017
Yet they have no plans to test pronuclear transfer in monkeys, and it is unclear who would conduct such experiments.
From Nature ● Jan. 25, 2012
For Don Winston of the pronuclear Atomic Industrial Forum, the report, while "quite frank and quite forthcoming," means little to the U.S., where technology and safety procedures are much better.
From Time Magazine Archive
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