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Chernobylic en · ADJ

Etymology

From Chernobyl + -ic.

Meanings

1. Of, or like the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster or its aftermath.
   • Now, my grandpa knows Nazis. he saw quite a few of them in World War II―mostly down the barrel of a rifle. Listening to the Chernobylic reaction to Pat Buchanan coming from the media mainstream, Grandpa has begun to wonder if the panzers aren’t pushing toward our borders at this very minute. 2001 May 15, Michael Graham, “My Grandpa, the Nazi”, in Clinton & Me, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
   • [l]ike a foam-shirted Lucifer slicking chernobylic through fat rolls of flame… 2009 February 24, Tim Lilburn, “Iamblichus to Porphyry”, in Orphic Politics, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 31:
   • The people in that newly abandoned region are left to cope with their new rust belt status, abandoned as they are to fates ranging from touristic simulacrum to Chernobylic calm. 2017 March 14, Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140, Obit, →ISBN:
   • The recent pattern of Chernobylic meltdowns at the Washington Post has been stupefying, a display of serial journalistic malpractice by a senior management beholden to the whims and ruthlessness of its billionaire owner—the man who turned Amazon into a retail behemoth while pushing his prole workers so hard that the drivers began peeing into bottles to meet draconian delivery quotas. 2025 March 18, Gene Weingarten, “The Washington Post Canceled Me for Currygate. Jeff Bezos Was My Unlikely Savior.”, in Mother Jones (blog), Media:
   • In a restaurant, she is formidable enough, diverting waiters from neighbouring tables to fetch her drinks or grumbling loudly about the freshness of the bread; in the back of a taxi she is overpowering, swaddled in an ankle-length fur coat and trailing a Chernobylic cloud of designer scent. 2012 June 30, Nicholas Coleridge, The Fashion Conspiracy, Random House, →ISBN:

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