candle
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Argentina “doesn’t hold a candle to the greatest rivalry in sports—Barcelona vs. Real Madrid.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
He said he planned to light a candle in the local church in her memory.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Right now, her favorite is the Nopal Cactus candle, which she made using a clipping from an employee’s yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The recent rally began shortly after a doji candle formed on May 19, a pattern that often signals a potential change in trend.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
She was a candle that had been snuffed out.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The trees went up like roman candles, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But I have somehow assembled enough glittering people and enough secondhand objects — a woven rug, cushions, low tables, an impossible number of candles — that it feels like a tiny seventh-floor pop-up restaurant.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
At the Small Heaven School in Chitwan district, near Kathmandu, which Purja had once attended, students and staff lit candles and mourned his death.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
I can still see my own mother covering her eyes as she lit our family’s Shabbos candles, whispering private prayers for her children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
He warned against potato peelers and tin openers; he viewed birthday candles as deadly weapons.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Unlike with most poultry, the eggs cannot be candled to check on the embryo growing inside for the 52 days between laying and hatching.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Early on, she candled eggs for a poultry farm while he played “frisbee on the green.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
If an egghead is candled, what shows up?
From Time Magazine Archive
Many so-so lines are salvaged by the neat professional finesse of Grant, Day and Meadows, with Gig Young contributing an amusing portrayal of a financial adviser who is having his head candled.
From Time Magazine Archive
You figure on gettin' me candled by some head shrinker, eh?
From Gun for Hire by H. R. van Dongen
Unclear, though certificates on the walls congratulate her on her mastery of ear candling and reiki.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2015
His wife, when not mothering their five boys and three girls, spent grueling days standing at a local produce house as she examined poultry eggs under a light - what they call candling.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
Sam Cruz, a 12-year IRS employee who works in candling, said he finds something left behind maybe two or three times for every thousand envelopes.
From Washington Post
Aside from an earful of candle wax, candling could lead to infection, burns to the ear canal or eardrum--or burning hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
The art of egg candling cannot be readily taught by worded description.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
