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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

Here and there the carpets had begun to smolder where some of the scattered coals had fallen.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Independent analyst Valery Karbalevich said that while the Russian money has buttressed Lukashenko’s rule for now, the broad discontent smolders and could spill over at any moment.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 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

The WSJ Logistics Report’s Liz Young writes that 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. 11, 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

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 fire, contained to a single building, smoldered for several days in mid-January.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

During the Civil War, as Atlanta smoldered, Root’s father had smuggled him to Liverpool, England, aboard a Confederate blockade-runner.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

About a ton of smoldering chemicals in big drums had released chlorine-compound fumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Merry mischief had been replaced by something stern and smoldering.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull