incinerate
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You probably aren’t rich or well-connected enough to have a 24 year-old incinerate your savings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
There’s “torch,” at the high end of high intensity, when flames rise into the forest crown and incinerate everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
It is promoting waste-to-energy sites that incinerate garbage and produce electricity, with 34 planned within two years.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
If anyone in crypto billed themselves as the kind of actors who wouldn’t incinerate, misallocate, or steal customers’ money, it was Bankman-Fried and FTX.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023
Hers were the only pair of eyes that were attempting to incinerate him.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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The machine incinerates the feathers at extremely high temperatures, measuring the emitted mercury.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023
Then a specialist smelting firm retrieves around 90% of the metals in the phone - a process which incinerates the plastic parts.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021
Even now, he said, he has the sort of high metabolism that incinerates calories.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
The earth is currently hurtling through a mass of dust and debris from the 3200 Phaethon asteroid, producing a meteor shower visible to people on both hemispheres as the detritus incinerates in the atmosphere.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2018
Springs of ancient wrath spray and fling its repressed fury , heeding not whom or what it incinerates when gravity reclaims lava?s spurts .
From NATURAE by Dom
Fires had incinerated the surrounding forestry, restricting their access to food and bringing them closer to humans.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Roughly half the waste ends up incinerated, 38% digested and 12% recycled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
In Japan, around 70 percent of some 820,000 tonnes of new clothes bought by consumers each year are eventually incinerated, according to an environment ministry study.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
It’s possible the blaze incinerated the dainty purple-and-white flowers before they could drop seeds this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
On their right, an exasperated winged woman screamed into her phone and then incinerated it in her fist.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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Flames have torn through vast swathes of forest in both countries, incinerating properties and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
After all, the “Toy Story” franchise has had pure villains before — one of them almost got away with incinerating the toys for good!
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Politicians will be tempted to let inflation whittle them down instead, incinerating the value of very long-term bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
“You can’t go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he’s brave. I like that.”
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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