blackened
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Crows circled the blackened earth looking for seared animals to feast on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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
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 windows were all gone but the brick shell of the house remained, damp and blackened and steaming, and most of the roof, the dark slate shingles gleaming like fish scales from their recent soaking.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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