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flamethrower

[flaym-throh-er] / ˈfleɪmˌθroʊ ər /


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So, just as the Dodgers get the chance to start Skubal, the Brewers get the chance to start flamethrower Jacob Misiorowski, the presumptive NL Cy Young Award winner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

"At that time, I was behaving a little bit like this flamethrower," she explained.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Once Chester realized that this mysterious D-III flamethrower was, in fact, real, he reached out to Ed Santa, a longtime Colorado Rockies scout who covered Western Pennsylvania.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

They gave lefty flamethrower Blake Snell $182 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

When he looks up to see me, the glare of his eye is like a flamethrower.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Racking up buckets of saves sent Billy Wagner and Trevor Hoffman to the Hall of Fame and turned flamethrowers like Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams and Eric “Game Over” Gagne into cult figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Dozens of stores selling fireworks resembling flamethrowers and packaged in garish boxes saw little foot traffic on a weekday morning.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Calculating velocity wasn’t precise until about 20 years ago, making it difficult to compare Joyce and Chapman to legendary flamethrowers such as Bob Feller and Nolan Ryan, who avoided injury while amassing staggering numbers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

Jaeger is an adventurous fellow who is fond of flamethrowers and scorns Searcher whose preferred tool is a hoe.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

Nail files, hedge trimmers, and homemade flamethrowers were more his speed.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia


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