flame
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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
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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
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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
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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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