incinerate
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You probably aren’t rich or well-connected enough to have a 24 year-old incinerate your savings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The government will invest $3.5 billion in a project to build 34 waste-to-energy sites within two years that would incinerate garbage to produce electricity, he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
One man was caught using a blowtorch to incinerate debris in West Hills as the Kenneth fire raged above him, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
If anyone in crypto billed themselves as the kind of actors who wouldn’t incinerate, misallocate, or steal customers’ money, it was Bankman-Fried and FTX.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023
Although he had never built a kiln before, he believed his design would generate temperatures extreme enough to incinerate anything within.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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The machine incinerates the feathers at extremely high temperatures, measuring the emitted mercury.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023
Then a specialist smelting firm retrieves around 90% of the metals in the phone - a process which incinerates the plastic parts.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021
The earth is currently hurtling through a mass of dust and debris from the 3200 Phaethon asteroid, producing a meteor shower visible to people on both hemispheres as the detritus incinerates in the atmosphere.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2018
This is the game you burn, even though it may also be the game that incinerates the team’s playoff chances.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016
Springs of ancient wrath spray and fling its repressed fury , heeding not whom or what it incinerates when gravity reclaims lava?s spurts .
From NATURAE by Dom
Roughly half the waste ends up incinerated, 38% digested and 12% recycled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Earlier this week, an incinerated roe deer was seen lying on the blackened ground.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
It’s possible the blaze incinerated the dainty purple-and-white flowers before they could drop seeds this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
A couple who put their car in for an MOT have discovered it was incinerated when the garage was destroyed by a huge fire.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
But instead of being incinerated by ten thousand volts, all I felt was a warm tingle.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
After all, the “Toy Story” franchise has had pure villains before — one of them almost got away with incinerating the toys for good!
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Japan does relatively well on generating electricity by incinerating trash, too.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Politicians will be tempted to let inflation whittle them down instead, incinerating the value of very long-term bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Then an incinerating white light filled the world, accompanied by an earsplitting wall of sound.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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