torching

Example Sentences

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OpenAI employees reportedly realized they were deploying a lot of valuable computing power—and torching a lot of cash—to get very little in turn.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Another had her torching Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution, releasing a fiery-eyed specter wearing Japan’s wartime rising-sun flag.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

As the criminals angrily described it to the BBC, "they yanked their own plug - tanking sales, burning logistics, and torching shareholder value".

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

After torching their rent-controlled apartment in one of their more disastrous schemes, Mac and Dennis are forced to relocate, landing in a cookie-cutter home an hour outside of Philadelphia.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

Yet Grover drove through the whole grand catastrophe undistracted, as though the torching of a place simply did not matter to him, or as though it were no more than some histrionics he’d ordered up.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen