Frantic
Frantic adjective - Feeling overwhelming fear or worry.
Usage example: the frantic parents were searching all over the fairgrounds for their lost child
Nuclear and frantic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nuclear" instead an adjective "Frantic".
Nearby Word: frantically
Both words in one sentence
- The novel The Dorset Disaster has this-when people start making frantic phone calls that the nuclear reactor has exploded, the first couple are dismissed as pranks.
Source: Mistaken for Prank Call -
After several days of nuclear brinkmanship and frantic diplomacy, the two superpowers avoided all-out war, leading to a relative thaw in US-USSR relationships.
Source: Useful Notes / Cuba - In Roman Polanski film Frantic, Harrison Ford ends up throwing the MacGuffin, a small electronic switch used in the detonators of nuclear devices, into the river, so neither the Arabs or the Israelis get it.
Source: No MacGuffin, No Winner
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