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burning

[bur-ning] / ˈbɜr nɪŋ /






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When AFP visited, explosions rang repeatedly through the burning hot air, as blasts split stone for mining.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

Matan Grinberg, chief executive of coding automator Factory, said one executive at a top financial institution told him his employees were burning hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on tokens.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Loud trucks kept passing and honking their horns, leaving a smell of burning diesel fuel in their wake.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

Another possibility is that the clouds evaporate as they move into temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees, similar to morning fog burning away on Earth but under far more extreme conditions.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

“He’s burning up. Where is that doctor? Where is he?”

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo




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