arsonist
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Once again, he is both arsonist and fireman.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
Indeed, Mark Zuckerberg offering Instagram-specific screen-time reports and time limits has the whiff of an arsonist handing out firefighting tips.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
“He likes to play arsonist and firefighter,” Carbajal said in an interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
When officials suspect there’s a serial arsonist at work, Muschetto said, plainclothes investigators may surveil a suspect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
He’d grown up being called a freak, an arsonist, because whenever he got angry, things burned.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Farinacci had been struggling since the birth of his son in May 2025, according to the affidavit, and became fascinated with fires and arsonists.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
His government banned construction on land affected by the blazes, and pledged harsher penalties for arsonists.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
San Bernardino County Supervisor Dawn Rowe praised investigators and prosecutors for sending a message that arsonists will be held accountable for their destructive actions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
That has not stopped idle speculation that the Palisades had been targeted by arsonists to bring down the area’s richest neighborhoods, or that angry arsonists had started all the fires.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2025
These different features are then arranged so that a great variety of clergymen, murderers, senators, embezzlers, artists, dynamiters, humorists, arsonists, larcenists, poets, statesmen, base ball players, rinkists, pianists, capitalists, bigamists and sluggists are easily represented.
From Remarks by Bill Nye
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The Great Fire
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