Divide
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Both words in one sentence
- It's about being blown up by an atomic bomb that causes the victims' cells to "divide at an alarming rate" until their bodies explode, leaving only the eponymous Hiroshima lovers-style silhouettes.
Source: Lyrical Dissonance / Indie - In the backstory of Fallout: New Vegas's Lonesome Road DLC, the Courier destroyed the Divide by delivering an Old World package unknowingly containing detonation codes, causing the dormant missiles to explode in their silos.
Source: Ye Olde Nuclear Silo
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Explode and Divide. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/divide/explode
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