burning
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Musk is turning Tesla’s back on human-driven cars, effectively burning the boats on the shores of a new world full of robots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The Joshua tree has been featured in poetry and music and represented a burning bush in the latest episode of “Euphoria.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The continent's widespread emissions are driven by industrialisation, economic development and transport, as well as wildfires and the burning of agricultural residue.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
El Niño began long before humans started burning fossil fuels.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
He did have one burning question, however, that he simply could not hold in.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
In August 2023, Sweden's intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of one to five, saying the Koran burnings had made the country a "prioritised target".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Last year, Sapo accused Iranian intelligence of hacking into a text messaging service to send 15,000 messages to Swedes, after several Quran burnings.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
"As natural habitats adapted to these controlled burnings, we see the expansion of fire-adapted species such as Eucalyptus, primarily on the wetter, eastern side of the Bass Strait islands," said Adeleye.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
I saw the mass book burnings by the Nazis in 1933.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024
King began his speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” by acknowledging he was moved to “break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart.”
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
