flame
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When he releases the button, the flame goes out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
She wrote how the farmers were "heroes" and now needed help to rebuild fencing destroyed by flame, as well as cover the cost of emergency feed and water for their animals during heatwave conditions.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
While the company and authorities have defended the technology for helping fight crime, reports of misuse have only fanned the flame this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
But though the flame might be small, it remains lit.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The flame didn’t hiss out like Anya thought it would.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
According to him, America would have burst into flames and melted into the bedrock mantle if he hadn’t come to town.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
"The flames do not actually have to touch the property itself... the heat that it creates will actually automatically engulf anything that's in its path."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Images shared by the Kenya Red Cross on X in the afternoon showed a crash site in flames.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
But the added heat from the flames doesn’t help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Or were exposed to direct flames for more than a couple seconds.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The 1988 presidential campaign of Alexander Haig, a former four-star general who served as Ronald Reagan’s first secretary of state, flamed out amid GOP infighting over the Iran–Contra affair.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
His teams were good enough to earn No. 1 or No. 2 seeds, but flamed out before the Elite Eight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Doubts about a Fed rate cut next month were also flamed by the release of much-delayed September jobs data.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
But once the flamboyant Tesla chief executive flamed out, the OMB director got to work to make DOGE’s work the foundation for lasting changes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
Autumn came; the trees flamed scarlet and yellow; the harvest moon was gold.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
We have to imagine, for instance, Ron DiFrancesco riding a broken slab of drywall down a flaming stairwell and becoming the last known person to escape the South Tower before it collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A flaming ear of corn transforms into a crankshaft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Some of her favourite moments include Beaker losing his eyeballs in a science experiment and Gonzo wearing flaming roller skates - to give a flavour of the chaos.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
Air traffic control’s communications came alive with surprised pilots who saw the accident, some of whom took photos and shot videos of the flaming streaks in the sky:
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026
My eyes moved immediately from a flaming pink flower in the bottom left to a strange storm brewing in the top right.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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