arsonist
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Indeed, Mark Zuckerberg offering Instagram-specific screen-time reports and time limits has the whiff of an arsonist handing out firefighting tips.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025
He became the arsonist who laid claim to being the heroic firefighter.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025
When officials suspect there’s a serial arsonist at work, Muschetto said, plainclothes investigators may surveil a suspect.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
And he appeared just as often in more popular fare, playing a spacey tank commander in “Kelly’s Heroes,” a demented arsonist in “Backdraft” and an authoritarian president in the “Hunger Games” films.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2024
On February 27, 1933, one month after Hitler’s appointment, a known Communist and arsonist set fire to the Reichstag, the parliamentary building.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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The Great Fire
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The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
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