"Chernobylic" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Chernobyl + -ic.",
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      "form": "more Chernobylic",
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          "ref": "2001 May 15, Michael Graham, “My Grandpa, the Nazi”, in Clinton & Me, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2009 February 24, Tim Lilburn, “Iamblichus to Porphyry”, in Orphic Politics, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 31:",
          "text": "[l]ike a foam-shirted Lucifer slicking chernobylic through fat rolls of flame…",
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          "ref": "2012 June 30, Nicholas Coleridge, The Fashion Conspiracy, Random House, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2017 March 14, Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140, Obit, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2025 March 18, Gene Weingarten, “The Washington Post Canceled Me for Currygate. Jeff Bezos Was My Unlikely Savior.”, in Mother Jones (blog), Media:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Of, or like the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster or its aftermath."
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          "ref": "2001 May 15, Michael Graham, “My Grandpa, the Nazi”, in Clinton & Me, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2009 February 24, Tim Lilburn, “Iamblichus to Porphyry”, in Orphic Politics, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 31:",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2025 March 18, Gene Weingarten, “The Washington Post Canceled Me for Currygate. Jeff Bezos Was My Unlikely Savior.”, in Mother Jones (blog), Media:",
          "text": "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.",
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