combustible
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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
Reliant on imports, Iran also faces a gasoline crisis—which is politically combustible.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
McCraney has a way of drawing the best from actors in tight combustible spaces and Mann has a long history with Fugard.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
The combustible Russian has made no secret of his dislike of playing on clay, previously describing it as "a surface for losers".
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
It was difficult to think of the ever-combative, highly combustible champion of the American Revolution as extraneous and invisible, but that is what the vice presidency had made him.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing combustible
Automobiles
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100 Great Words from "Fahrenheit 451" -- Part I Vocabulary
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The Great Fire
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