How to Use antinuclear in a Sentence

antinuclear

adjective
  • So, too, against apartheid and in the global antinuclear movement. The youth climate movement is different, say those who study social protests.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Their exposure led to Japan’s first large antinuclear protests.
    — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • With no resolution in sight, the antinuclear movement in recent years has lost steam.
    — Amy Chang Chien Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • As part of the antinuclear physicians group, Muller reached out to Russian doctors.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2019
  • Some local residents say the problems have been overblown by antinuclear activists.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • Corbyn is an old-school British leftist who cut his teeth in the antinuclear protests of the 1980s.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
  • True, the antinuclear forces will find plenty in the Fukushima saga to bolster their arguments.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
  • The views of some antinuclear environmentalists have shifted over the years.
    — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Ellsberg spent the next several decades as a writer, lecturer and antinuclear activist.
    — Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • The study also highlights a type of protein called antinuclear antibodies, which bind to the nucleus of cells and are one of the hallmarks of lupus.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Antinuclear activists claimed victory, while the government dismissed the result and reconfirmed its plan to build a plant here.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2016
  • That prospect marks a coming of age for a party that grew out of grass-roots ecological and antinuclear activism of the 1980s.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Austria is now agitating to spread its antinuclear message on an EU level.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
  • While his supporters lamented the loss of a leader who had made a name with his stirring speeches and stern antinuclear stance, opponents accused the party of lackadaisical vetting.
    — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In the 1960s, before the antinuclear movement gained traction, they were seen as a promising technology.
    — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • For Francis, the antinuclear message is the centerpiece of his three-day trip to Japan, the second half of a journey that began in Thailand.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The bunker mentality of nuclear engineers has been matched by the hysteria of some antinuclear campaigning.
    — Fred Pearce, Time, 22 May 2018
  • The antinuclear movement provided the seedbed for defense conversion to germinate.
    — Michael Brenes, The New Republic, 18 June 2020
  • The Greens, a party with roots in the antinuclear movement, are the key obstacle to the proposal, according to several officials.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But persistent confusion over what had happened and the extent of the danger, compounded by dire warnings by antinuclear activists, left the public disconcerted.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • One of the earliest antinuclear groups, Clamshell was a model for many others, which together helped slow the building of nuclear plants across the United States.
    — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The antinuclear move has support from many of Germany’s climate-change obsessives, but abandoning carbon-free nuclear power has had predictable results on emissions.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Natural-gas prices have soared as Russia clamps down on exports of the fuel, softening antinuclear sentiment in countries such as Germany and Japan that import lots of gas.
    — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The Fukushima reactor meltdowns in similarly quake-prone Japan reinforced the party’s antinuclear stance.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Baerbock has been co-leader of the Greens since 2018 as the party transformed from its roots in the more antinuclear, environmentalist movements to the more mainstream party.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • For example, the antinuclear antibody (ANA) test is usually positive in lupus.
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
  • The researchers found that Epstein-Barr infects and reprograms B cells to produce antinuclear antibodies that attack the body’s own tissue, thereby causing lupus.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Subsequent films retreated from the original’s explicit antinuclear sentiments, instead introducing a rogue’s gallery of monsters for Godzilla to fight.
    — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The researchers hypothesize that perhaps only certain EBV strains are able to turn B cells into the antigen-presenting cells that go on to recruit antinuclear B cells.
    — New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In 2010, Ayala’s primary care physician had run an ANA test, which detects antinuclear antibodies that attack the body’s tissues.
    — Tatiana Walk-Morris, SELF, 20 Feb. 2018

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