inferno
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The inferno that resulted from Sunday’s crash was so large that it burned shrubs planted on the other side of the sidewalk, several feet away from where the car hit the tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
When they start shooting a movie together, they begin to understand their connection to this ancient evil, and their place in a cyclical inferno wrought by absent parents and bad weather.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
It was around 1:40 a.m. on a summer Saturday last month when Alcaraz’s cell ignited into an inferno.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“When I looked out of my daughter’s bedroom, it looked like an inferno, an apocalypse,” she recalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
They had no tools to stanch a fire, and no plan at all for what they might do to put out a chemical inferno.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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But she wanted more focus on accountability for utilities that spark the infernos, such as bans on stock buybacks, and balked at limiting damages for survivors without more public debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Such is the vast scale of the infernos ravaging France's south-western Gironde region, that it is not always obvious what direction the smoke is coming from.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
It notably does not include forest lost to fires, but after a record fire season in 2024, the country was relatively spared major infernos last year.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Change may be the only constant, but blazing infernos tearing through Pacific Palisades, Kaskade’s home for the last 15 years, was a new kind of change for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
The volume of the infernos roar also died down enough that he could hear the crunching sounds of his footsteps again.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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