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candle

[kan-dl] / ˈkæn dl /
NOUN
taper
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"Thank you for everything, we will never forget you," read a message on the candle, which accompanied flowers and a placard calling Abascal "the grandmother of an entire country".

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

In a statement released by his office on Wednesday afternoon, Netanyahu said he had lit a memorial candle commemorating every victim of 7 October.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Other images were less place-centric—an MRI, a candle, a horde of monarch butterflies, the storm of the Señora’s tears.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It’s your job to manage both and make sure that you are not burning the candle at both ends.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Hila pulled a candle from the leather handbag resting on the couch beside her, followed by a black drawstring pouch, dumping the ring onto her hand.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Yet with the bull market ready to blow out four candles this week, surging Treasury yields have been raising doubts on Wall Street about how much further stocks can climb from here.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

Another march is scheduled for Thursday evening from Sol to Maricarmen's former home in the upmarket Retiro neighbourhood, where candles and flowers have also been left by mourners.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The situation escalates as the mariachi music begins playing and the couple approach a display of white roses and candles laid out on the grass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

To determine their intrinsic brightness, astronomers use other standard candles, such as Cepheid stars, in the galaxies nearby.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Public buildings and private homes glowed from candles, torches, gaslights, and fireworks.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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

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

After the seventh day, on which he had tested or candled the eggs, he was willing to promise almost anything in the way of a hatch, up to seventy-five or eighty per cent.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by John Williams Streeter

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

The "ear debris" left in the candle's hollows, assumed by aficionados to be proof--however icky--that candling is doing its stuff, is nothing more than melted wax from the candle itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

First grade that can be separated by candling, corresponding to about twenty-four hours of incubation.

From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings


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