blackened
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Ragged strips of aluminium hung from torn-open structures, while stray dogs roamed through blackened pipes and mounds of rubble.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
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
This would be an idyllic scene were it not for the blackened pine and oak trees all around, the legacy of a devastating recent wildfire.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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
A mild effort, she had called it; they had only blackened the walls.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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