combustible
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Appeared in the October 3, 2025, print edition as 'Daniel Day-Lewis’s Combustible Return'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
In the 1980s, he began crossing the nation as a keyboardist with various bands, most notably Combustible Edison and the Del Fuegos.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022
Combustible materials used to refurbish Grenfell were central to the chain of events in June 2017 that turned an ordinary kitchen fire into an inferno, an official inquiry said last month.
From Reuters • Nov. 11, 2019
Combustible cladding was not to be used on high-rise flats.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2018
Combustible natural products inevitably make themselves noticed, as when a resinous log explodes in a campfire.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing combustible
Automobiles
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100 Great Words from "Fahrenheit 451" -- Part I Vocabulary
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The Great Fire
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