conflagration
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But in those circumstances, short sellers provide dry kindling for a conflagration because when the stock jumps, they race to buy it at any price and return borrowed shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
And they engaged knowing that, if they failed, there was the option to keep fighting – whatever the spiralling pain for their own people and a world reeling from the cost of this conflagration.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
The conflagration caused the building’s roof to collapse and escalated to a six-alarm fire, requiring the response of around 175 firefighters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Blankfein said he was concerned that the lack of a recent financial market shakeout made the dangers of another conflagration all the greater.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
Summertime riots had become an annual event in America’s inner cities, starting with the Los Angeles Watts conflagration in 1965, and the climate in Durham that spring was particularly volatile.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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