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campfire

[kamp-fahyuhr] / ˈkæmpˌfaɪər /




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Britain's The Guardian newspaper said the movie "entertains us with creepy campfire tales" but the Hollywood Reporter called it a "dull existential drama" while The Wrap website described it as a "frustrating slog".

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

“It’s like starting a campfire with wet wood versus dry wood,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

On the opening “The Outlaw Cherie Lee,” as if sitting around a campfire, actor Jamie Foxx introduces the mythical story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

He’s just some mud-brown monstrosity roaming the Vale of Arryn and treating livestock like campfire marshmallows.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

They’d made no campfire and were dressed as Kaelish peasants, but she’d known what they were right away.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Maine’s camp culture combines rustic canoe trips and campfires with a polished social ecosystem that brings convoys of black SUVs to the state every summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Forest officials will, at times, limit campfires and stove usage because of elevated wildfire risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025

The Cairngorms National Park Authority has urged people not to light campfires and barbecues.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

In Northern California, fire-evacuation “go bags” are normal, campfires are essentially a thing of the past, and even people living outside take fire risks seriously.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2024

Metaphors like those about celestial campfires or galactic backbones were eventually replaced in most human cultures by another idea; The powerful beings in the sky were promoted to gods.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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