burning
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Aerial footage of the fire showed flames burning along a hillside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Boatsetter made the booking easy, and because the sailboat was captained by its owner, all I really had to worry about was keeping dinner from burning.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Here, volunteer firefighters have been risking their lives and lungs to extinguish burning peatlands which are notoriously difficult to put out.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
On weekday mornings, they’re packed with ordinary people burning offerings and whispering prayers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The morning air is sharp with the tang of burning wood, rubber, paint, sugar— whatever was in those warehouses along the river.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
In August 2023, Sweden's intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of one to five, saying the Koran burnings had made the country a "prioritised target".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
The American Library Association has a Bill of Rights, adopted on June 19, 1939, as a response to book burnings in Nazi Germany.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025
Last year, Sapo accused Iranian intelligence of hacking into a text messaging service to send 15,000 messages to Swedes, after several Quran burnings.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
"As natural habitats adapted to these controlled burnings, we see the expansion of fire-adapted species such as Eucalyptus, primarily on the wetter, eastern side of the Bass Strait islands," said Adeleye.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
King began his speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” by acknowledging he was moved to “break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart.”
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
