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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

As a result, they may overlook slower, less visible fires that smolder deep within peat and organic soils.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

The Palisades fire was a holdover from the Jan. 1 Lachman fire, which continued to smolder and burn underground until kicked up by heavy winds on Jan. 7.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 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 orange peels would smolder in there, and the men would hunker down around the cans and watch the smoke seep out the holes.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

And Loren Kramar, an up-and-coming orchestral singer-songwriter, smolders through Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

While the first hour of this “Fire” smolders like an unusual domestic drama, pivotal disasters bring the lovers crashing down to earth — literally.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022

In "The Underground Railroad" he smolders as Royal, a free Black man who rescues an enslaved woman, Cora, from a heartless bounty hunter who never stops chasing her.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 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

According to the ATF special agent, a firebrand became lodged within dense chaparral and then smoldered and burned within the roots of the vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025

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

That fire, which burned more than 54,000 LG battery modules, spewed toxic smoke into the air and smoldered for several days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025

It smoldered for several days, spewing toxic gas into the air and prompting the evacuation of about 1,500 people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

Little fires burned in the underbrush, and trees smoldered.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Firefighters and police, some wearing face masks, were working amid the twisted, smoldering wreckage of the aircraft.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 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

Late last year, Chilean singer-songwriter Mon Laferte dropped “Femme Fatale,” a smoldering album that was instantly hailed as one of the best Latin records of 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Aerial video captured by ABC7 showed smoke rising from a smoldering truck as a long line of cars extended south of the incident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

A charred bundle of hay, still smoldering, leaned at a drunken angle against a pile of rocks, spitting distance from the barn.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson