candle
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So light up that candle, lock the doors and bring the tissues if you have to — just don’t be ashamed to feel all the feels, or shake your booty if the mood strikes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
He said he planned to light a candle in the local church in her memory.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
A staff member pulls a beeswax corn candle, $26, out of its mold at Happy Organics’ studio in downtown Los Angeles.
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 roused herself just enough to blow out the candle on her bedside table.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
As time went on, painting taper candles helped her find joy again, and others noticed too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
There are a couple of Roman candles sticking up out of a tube.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
Sample eggs are then candled to determine whether the agent is properly infecting the embryos.
From Time Magazine Archive
While psychiatrists candled the accused's head, the city focused on its ugly old Cook County jail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Separators should be carefully "candled" — placed in front of a light and looked through.
From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Witte, Otto A.
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
And parents, when they're not candling each other with $5 kits from a health-food store, are doing it to their kids to stave off ear infections.
From Time Magazine Archive
The loss in candling is generally kept account of, but is seldom charged back to the shipper.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
