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burn

[burn] / bɜrn /


VERB
cause or feel stinging pain
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McElligott also provided this chart showing how Big Tech is set to burn through a ton of its cash that in the past might have been used for buybacks by the end of this year:

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

One man, whose home of 13 years was destroyed by fire, said watching it burn down was "a feeling I'll never get over".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

“Over half of the island didn’t burn, so there’s still really good habitat for the fox to move over to,” Travaglio said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

An intensive coding session by a programmer can burn through one million tokens in a matter of hours or less.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

She had to do something about the second-degree burn right now.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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