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combustible

[kuhm-buhs-tuh-buhl] / kəmˈbʌs tə bəl /


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The beetles strip plants of their leaves, leaving combustible woody stems, he said.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Other areas had gone without fire for more than 100 years, allowing dead wood, shrubs, and other combustible material to accumulate.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Automakers are also racing to shift away from combustible engines under EU rules that call for 90 percent of all cars sold in the bloc to be electric by 2035.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

Knicks fans—a combustible bunch at the best of times—were calling for the first-year coach to be fired, for expensive stars to be shipped off, and for the roster to be torn down and reassembled.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

Ghosts were not combustible, and neither was mesarthium, so there had been no risk of her setting the citadel alight.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

That includes cleaning your gutters, removing any combustibles from around your house, making sure that embers can’t enter into your roof or your other cavities within your building.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2025

Different types of garbage - separated into combustibles, non-combustibles, and recyclables - are collected according to different schedules.

From BBC Dec. 19, 2024

The company said the number of consumers of non-combustible products grew by 900,000 in the first quarter, but growth in the U.S. combustibles market staggered.

From Reuters Jun. 6, 2023

Renaldo said workers were using blowtorches on the building’s exterior before the fire and that heat may have transferred through brick or mortar to the interior and ignited paper or other combustibles.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 2023

We formed a ring around the base of the tree, and one by one deposited our combustibles at the trunk.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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