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ignite

[ig-nahyt] / ɪgˈnaɪt /


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They open their second Champions League campaign under Unai Emery at Club Brugge on Tuesday aiming to ignite the season.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

During severe droughts, these normally wet landscapes can dry enough to ignite.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

"El Nino does not ignite fires. It creates the dry conditions that allow human-started fires to escape and become very large," he told AFP.

From Barron's Sep. 5, 2026

The deer eat fire-resilient chaparral and other native plants, making way for invasive annual grasses, which ignite more easily, increase erosion and leave less water to soak into aquifers, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The physics gets complicated, and some of it’s still classified, but the key point is that they figured out a way to ignite a fusion bomb using the X-rays produced by a fission blast.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

“When you see someone, and you’re excited, or you’re angry,” Suwinyattichaiporn said, “it ignites a similar part of the brain.”

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

“The key is whether this ignites further rounds of strikes from both sides, and whether it leaves shippers hesitant to navigate the Strait of Hormuz,” ING commodities strategists Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Shin may be trying to remove fuel before the room ignites on its own.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

Known as a 'gentle giant', Raducanu says Richardson also has a fiery side that ignites the competitive spark in her.

From BBC May 22, 2026

But it’s only in the rare instance that such an exchange ignites a word-of-mouth epidemic.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

The city of La Verne issued evacuation orders Tuesday after a hazardous lithium-ion battery fire ignited at a Metropolitan Water District of Southern California facility, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

Since he resigned, top executives of the world’s most valuable companies and AI labs have found themselves on opposite sides of the debate that he ignited.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Since the launch of ChatGPT ignited the AI revolution, Berber has broken dozens of major stories on the industry's biggest players.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

One ignited shortly before it was loaded on to a DHL cargo plane.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

As she turned back in to Farley’s, her comments ignited everyone in conversation again.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

These surge for tens of kilometers, splintering trees, igniting forests and burying the remnants beneath hot ash and pumice.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

The deal was paid in large part by funding from insurance companies they owned with Guggenheim, causing controversy but also igniting a wave of interest from private-equity firms to tap in to sports cash flows.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

The fire then spread quickly, igniting plastics, equipment and bins.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

And his fiery temper, igniting at every possible moment with his older and more accommodating bandmates, turns this snapshot of history into genuine tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

I looked down, expecting to see a spark igniting the front of Zu’s ridiculous dress, and then I was falling, and Liam was falling on top of me.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken




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