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Instead of racing through trees and vegetation, these fires smolder through dried wetland soils and large deposits of peat, often continuing underground at relatively low temperatures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Chandler flexes the charisma that made his “Friday Night Lights” father figure Coach Taylor such an indelible figure, while Pierre’s buttoned-down smolder slowly simmers the tension between them.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

"Peatlands and organic soils can smolder for weeks to years, releasing enormous amounts of ancient carbon."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

Passions still smolder below the surface, but there is not enough oxygen to let them flame into life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

The firefighters held their position until the fierce heat began to singe the hair on their heads and arms, and their clothes began to smolder.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Guy, who is positioned from the first as a soulmate, smolders where Theo is sensitive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Elliot smolders, barely contained by a cravat, whether blocking the path when Anne is on a walk with her family, or entering a room.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2022

Rooney Mara, as a carny who’s not quite entirely slipped to the dark side, smolders quietly; you’re never sure what she’s thinking but you can’t look away.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Almost two years after a massive battery fire in Monterey County displaced 1,200 people and smoldered for days, spewing toxic gas into the air, the same facility is burning again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The fire started June 17 at the 500,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood and smoldered for days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Lachman fire smoldered underground for a week before exploding into the deadly Palisades fire on Jan. 7, 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

The blaze, which firefighters had said was contained hours later, smoldered underground in dense vegetation for days until powerful winds on Jan. 7 caused it to spread, authorities said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

There smoldered in him the hope that Max had made him feel in the first long talk they had had.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

With every step farther into “the pile,” what rescue workers came to call the smoldering mass of debris, a coating of white powder got thicker and deeper—like snow that wasn’t snow, my father recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Drought changes that dramatically, allowing flames to enter the peat itself and continue smoldering below the surface.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Firefighters and police were working at the scene amid the twisted, smoldering wreckage of the aircraft, images posted on Facebook by local news outlets revealed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

But Lineage has contracted a private fire company to continue flowing water into smoldering areas of the rubble when needed as crews work to remove the debris, according to the mayor’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Each one who dies, a red star smoldering out.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper