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the kindling in the wood stove was aflame as soon as I held a match to it
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Throughout this saga of TikTok’s banning and unbanning, social media has been aflame with commentary and memes.
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Lion, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (2017)
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Remember when Dev Patel was lighting all our loins aflame during the Lion press tour by showing up to every red-carpet event with young co-star Sunny Pawar, flipping that hair and being adorable?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
By the time the Globes winners woke up on January 7, the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles was aflame, and as the Eaton fire in Pasadena grew the following day, the two blazes, bolstered by the Santa Ana winds, turned the town scared and smoky, and claimed five lives.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2025
Others were thrown down and expired slowly, gasping or twisting or rolling in pain, sometimes with uniforms aflame, while observation drones collected footage of their agonies.
—C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Lion, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (2017)
Photo: TWC
Remember when Dev Patel was lighting all our loins aflame during the Lion press tour by showing up to every red-carpet event with young co-star Sunny Pawar, flipping that hair and being adorable?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
By the time the Globes winners woke up on January 7, the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles was aflame, and as the Eaton fire in Pasadena grew the following day, the two blazes, bolstered by the Santa Ana winds, turned the town scared and smoky, and claimed five lives.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2025
Others were thrown down and expired slowly, gasping or twisting or rolling in pain, sometimes with uniforms aflame, while observation drones collected footage of their agonies.
—C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Aflame.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aflame. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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