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The schoolgirl was named a Games MVP on Sunday to cap an extraordinary showing that saw her scorch to gold in the 200m butterfly and do the 200m-400m individual medley double.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Their complaints echo a broader unease that has followed solar's expansion into rural Texas - worries about visual impact, water runoff after land is cleared, and battery storage units that scorch their land.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Faint scorch marks could have formed when the pot was originally fired, or they may have appeared later if the vessel was set close to a fire to warm individual servings of food.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

His point was that the abundant regeneration that Hanson shows off represents scorch, where heat opened the cones to release the multitude of seeds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

He moved one pair that was too close to her nose, hoping his mother wouldn't notice the little scorch marks.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

While it has been widely reported that the helicopters' exhaust scorches grass, Trump added Monday that the airflow is so powerful, the lawn actually "gets ripped out."

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

The Hammond B3 swells on the verse’s first pass, sticking close to the song’s melody, but on the second, it jumps an octave in an improvisation that nearly scorches the ear.

From Salon ● May 15, 2026

The scene in which Biff almost violently embraces Willy and tries—in vain—to make him discard his illusions scorches with its sadness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Rodgers would see patients, young and old, gasping for air, wracked with pain that scorches the chest.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

It scorches my blood and sears my thoughts.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Wind-whipped flames scorched multi-million dollar homes south of Los Angeles on Friday as a wildfire quickly ravaged hundreds of acres.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Tommy Edman led off with a single, and then Betts scorched a 100.9-mph one-hopper at shortstop Cooper Pratt, who mishandled it, giving Betts a single to put two runners on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Pluskalowski has recently become obsessed with making a taco shell from tahdig, the scorched rice at the bottom of a pot of Persian rice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

On Cannock Chase, I spent the day with Staffordshire County Council rangers, as they showed me around the black, scorched earth left behind after the fires that took place there.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

It wasn’t until the next morning that Worsley discovered holes scorched in his socks, but the skin on his feet was still so waterlogged that it hadn’t burned.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

But new observations reveal that the atmospheres surrounding some of these scorching alien worlds can have surprisingly uneven shapes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The album is loaded with Anthrax trademarks — serrated, crunchy riffs, soaring lead vocals, bludgeoning beats, and scorching guitar — but there are also galactic noise effects, angular song structures and atypical chord configurations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

At least 35,000 excess deaths have been linked to the scorching heat waves in Europe over the summer, though that is likely an undercount.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Inside the barren transit tent, which provides little escape from scorching 41C heat, Zarina sits alongside an anxious huddle of women and their children.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Torches burned in sconces, their flames scorching the stone walls behind them.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack