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incinerate

[in-sin-uh-reyt] / ɪnˈsɪn əˌreɪt /


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It is promoting waste-to-energy sites that incinerate garbage and produce electricity, with 34 planned within two years.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

It describes the behavior of some speculators in volatile stocks or cryptocurrencies who incinerate more of their savings after failing to cash in on big paper gains.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 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

But that sorrow and that rage might incinerate her, same as that storm yesterday, with its lightning bolts speeding through this flat land, looking for the one thing still standing.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

Even now, he said, he has the sort of high metabolism that incinerates calories.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 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

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

Felix, a food redistribution charity, collects surplus food from shops and other providers so that it is not thrown away or incinerated.

From BBC Sep. 14, 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

Globally, it's estimated that 300,000 disposable nappies are sent to landfill or incinerated every minute, leading to environmental issues as many contain plastics and synthetic materials and can take hundreds of years to decompose.

From BBC Mar. 12, 2026

Eventually, Laika and her spacecraft were incinerated when their orbit decayed in April 1958.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Flames have torn through vast swathes of forest in both countries, incinerating properties and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

"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

It feels a little bit like Skynet giving us a heads up before incinerating the atmosphere, but I’ll take it.

From Slate Feb. 8, 2026

Then, just as in her nightmares, the Mark of Athena burned across the walls, incinerating the spiders until the room was empty except for the smell of sickly sweet ashes.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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