smouldering
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But while the small pockets of smouldering vegetation are still being dealt with, attention is turning to improving wildfire protection.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The war has also continued to spread, sucking in and reigniting Yemen's smouldering civil war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
In Stourbridge near the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, smoke rose from smouldering ruins of several roofless houses as firefighters sprayed water on the wreckage Friday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Instead, he returned to find nothing but smouldering ruins.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
At times the spell would be broken suddenly: on shelves or in hallways of my mother’s cave, large old shapes with smouldering eyes sat watching me.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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