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flame

[fleym] / fleɪm /






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There’s a flame in my heart that wasn’t there before watching this movie, and that’s as great as a review can get.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

Even before Gardner shows up an hour before curtain, a backstage crew is hard at work crafting Lumiere’s signature flame effect.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

“Once you wear the uniform,” he says, “the blue flame never goes out.”

From The Wall Street Journal 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

Inside the flame was a small hand, like that of a child.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

More than 60 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units rushed to the scene to put out the flames and assess any injuries.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

The flames were extinguished, but there is still a fuel leak at the site, said Jadallah.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Drought changes that dramatically, allowing flames to enter the peat itself and continue smoldering below the surface.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Next to the damaged station, dozens of onlookers stared at the flames roaring from the vehicle amid shards of glass and rubble, AFP journalists observed.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

Had he died in the flames, and was he now trapped in some sort of parallel universe?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

Other standouts included flamed A5 wagyu topped with foie gras and melt-in-your-mouth hamachi in yuzu and soy, finished with serrano and a dollop of sriracha.

From Salon Feb. 2, 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

Its foremost symptom was a sensation of heat that on occasion flamed in the nerve endings of his forehead until the arteries in his temples pulsed visibly.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

A woman testified that she saw Stout get out of the flaming car and push it over the dirt mound, where it rolled down the embankment and ignited the dry vegetation at the bottom.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

In U.S. television, there’s a tendency to open every piece of sports programming with a clash of cymbals and a rhinoceros jumping through a flaming hoop.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Parkkonen, who appears on stage as enigmatic and brooding while lamenting his unanswered love next to a flaming confessional, hoped the song will serve as "a helping hand".

From Barron's Apr. 30, 2026

Last year, three of Starship’s five launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths, twice raining flaming debris over congested commercial airways and disrupting flights.

From Salon Jan. 12, 2026

I’d told them about my vision of the moped as a flaming grasshopper.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon




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