hazardous
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The updated permit has also allowed the site to temporarily store and move some hazardous and clinical waste, though these materials will not be burned at the energy recovery facility.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
County Sheriff’s Department emphasized those challenges in its statement, saying that deputies and officials worked “under extremely chaotic and hazardous conditions, using the information they had available.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
We are in a cycle where instant success is expected, and that has made things even more hazardous.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
The crisis began when the Orange County Fire Authority responded to reports of a hazardous materials incident at GKN Aerospace on Western Avenue in Garden Grove.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
It was the kind of whole certainty, however independent^ the sum of its facts, that can make walking backwards more than normally hazardous, and I bumped smack into a baby carriage.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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