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combustible

[kuhm-buhs-tuh-buhl] / kəmˈbʌs tə bəl /


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The campaign is playing out against an unusually combustible mix of economic anxiety, war, immigration battles, corruption concerns and unease over rapidly expanding artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The fire started in the kitchen of a fourth floor flat and then spread rapidly on the outside of the building via combustible cladding.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Other areas had gone without fire for more than 100 years, allowing dead wood, shrubs, and other combustible material to accumulate.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Orson Welles observed that the duo’s combustible zaniness was so hilarious that it made you wet your pants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

“Like charcoal? The combustible or the art supply?”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

In other situations where combustibles were close to homes, embers likely ignited those materials and created spot fires, or entered open windows or vents, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

The company said the number of consumers of non-combustible products grew by 900,000 in the first quarter, but growth in the U.S. combustibles market staggered.

From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2023

Renaldo said workers were using blowtorches on the building’s exterior before the fire and that heat may have transferred through brick or mortar to the interior and ignited paper or other combustibles.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

But with battery fires, he said, “we go from no problem whatsoever to a fully involved fire. If there are any combustibles around that bike, they will be on fire in a second.”

From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2023

We formed a ring around the base of the tree, and one by one deposited our combustibles at the trunk.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey


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