torch
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To the contrary, the entire discussion on YouTube was about Grande’s body, not the video’s visuals or the music, a lovely torch song where she compares herself to a “petal in the pavement.”
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Once underwater, they sliced through the ship’s steel using a torch with a self-consuming rod burning at thousands of degrees Fahrenheit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I accept the responsibility to help carry the torch and move it forward, and hand it off to the Jennie Finches and the Cat Ostermans,” Fernandez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
He returned with a torch and said it felt like "a labyrinth".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
She touched a cobwebbed torch on the wall.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Instead of working with a massive furnace, participants use small torches, making the process feel more approachable and easier to control.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Macleod agrees: "Turn off torches and car headlights, and stop looking at your phone because the light from the screen can affect your eyes acclimatising and adjusting to the total darkness."
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Still, it seems the villagers have put down their torches and pitchforks for now.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
Finally, two Olympic torches were lit two Olympic cauldrons, in Milan and Cortina, their flames at the center of shape-shifting spheres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Along the riverbank, torches burned in preparation for the Faire, but I saw no hummingbears.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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