blackened
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AFP video footage showed that the fire had burned down the mosque's interior carpeting and blackened the walls.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
I even spot a small yellow flower shooting up from the blackened ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Four Marines crouch in the foreground surrounded by the blackened remains of burned trees; in the top two-thirds of the picture the black-and-white smoke of the blast billows upward, beautiful in its destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The aggressive Plaskett fire overtook the Timber fire in size, and together they have blackened more than 50,000 acres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“C’mon, how bad could it be? When I was little, your grandma made us eat fried rabbit livers with pepper jelly. You kids have it easy. We got blackened vegetables on the good days.”
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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