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  What it means

  Literally “atomic mushroom.” The mushroom cloud produced by a nuclear explosion. Used figuratively to describe anything that explodes dramatically in scale — a scandal, a crisis, or a social media storm that mushrooms out of control.

  Vocabulary

  • grzyb — mushroom
  • atomowy — atomic, nuclear (adjective)

  Grammar note

  'Atomowy' is a masculine nominative adjective agreeing with 'grzyb'.

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