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A potentially dangerous, record-setting heat wave is forecast to scorch Southern California on Thursday and Friday, with triple-digit highs possible in many spots across the region.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

Footage filmed shortly afterwards showed heavy damage to the building, with scorch marks visible on the walls and smoke slowly rising from the exterior.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

“In a physical attack, you can crash into drones, trap them in a net or scorch them with a laser,” said Andres Gomez, an electronics engineer at Aeronautical Industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

All eyes then turned on the final racer, the 25-year-old Braathen keeping his calm to scorch through to a historic victory for his adopted homeland.

From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025

The blast toppled trees in a 230.square-mile area north of the volcano called the blowdown zone and left vegetation standing but seared lifeless—the scorch zone—on the edges.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

While it has been widely reported that the helicopters' exhaust scorches grass, Trump added Monday that the airflow is so powerful, the lawn actually "gets ripped out."

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

The scene in which Biff almost violently embraces Willy and tries—in vain—to make him discard his illusions scorches with its sadness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

The Illinois State Journal declared in a July 8 headline, “Heat wave scorches Midwest: many die.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022

Rodgers would see patients, young and old, gasping for air, wracked with pain that scorches the chest.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

It scorches a long brown finger oh the newspaper.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

Together, they had scorched 77,000 hectares, an area roughly equal in size to New York City.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Yet another heat wave scorched the Western United States Saturday, bringing extreme heat warnings to Southern California and record temperatures in the Southwest and Montana.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

After sunrise, villagers in Qusra, near the city of Nablus, walked through the scorched remains of the Al-Rahma mosque, broken tiles littering the ground, videos showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Two people involved in the firefighting operation walk across a scorched, smoking hillside at Ryvoan, Abernethy, on 19 July.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

He would have come awake like a scorched tiger had he known what the fox was actually up to!

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Saturday’s rehearsals took place under a scorching sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

When it’s not scorching or flooding or burning outside, it’s a nice time to just turn off your brain and relax.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

The silver lining for Google investors was the company’s cloud unit, which recorded scorching revenue growth of 82%, fueled by insatiable demand for computing capacity for training and running AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Firefighters in France and Spain were battling to contain the worst wildfires in living memory before the arrival of a fourth heatwave of the summer brings scorching temperatures.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Yet the coast is not a classic, Sahara-style desert of sand dunes and scorching sun.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann