incendiary
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"I was a war baby so I can remember incendiary bombs dropping on me and we'd have to shelter under the stairs. So the Second World War to me was apocalyptic".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Yet during the Oval Office signing, Trump made a series of incendiary and unsupported statements, including: "Together, there could be a possibility they are quite lethal."
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
But it notes that the artist rejects that incendiary political reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The defense said investigators “found no accelerants, they found no incendiary devices that could be linked to my client.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Laleh had acquired a bag of Sour Patch Kids while she browsed Terminal 4, and the combination of sugar and temporal distortion proved an incendiary one.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Erika Kirk was standing center stage in a hotel ballroom, explaining the difference between earthly pleasures and heavenly joy, when a heckler interrupted her remarks to shout incendiaries at her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
“However imperfect the evidence, there is too much of it to ignore the apparent fact that incendiaries deliberately ignited the great fire.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
It was July 4, 1907, and the instigators were as striking as the incendiaries.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2021
"The sight of these incendiaries coming down, it was incredible, because we were looking at Townhill, and Townhill was looking across at us," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2021
The projectile was a mixture of incendiaries and Imperial gold.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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