ultraviolent
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The ultraviolent 1991 film was directed by her former husband Renny Harlin and co-starred Samuel L. Jackson as a lowly private investigator.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
In another document, the CIA describes a system to secretly tag and identify public phone boxes that are tapped, using a paint only visible under ultraviolent light.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025
ASML's most sophisticated machines -- extreme ultraviolent "EUV" lithography machines -- are already restricted, and have never been shipped to China.
From Reuters • Jun. 29, 2023
Releasing aerosols into the stratosphere, for instance, could damage the ozone layer, which protects people and the planet from the sun's cancer-causing ultraviolent rays.
From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2023
American officials have struggled to get Dutch officials and a major Dutch technology company, ASML, to end sales of an important semiconductor manufacturing tool, deep ultraviolent lithography systems, to China.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
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