incinerator
noun
in·cin·er·a·tor
in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrā-tər 
: one that incinerates
especially
: a furnace or a container for incinerating waste materials
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Some open-air incinerators stopped operating at the dumps.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2025
Sugarcane provides evidence that newborns were tossed into incinerators at St. Joseph’s Mission; NoiseCat’s own father, Ed Archie NoiseCat, miraculously avoided immolation as a baby only through the intercession of a groundskeeper who heard the infant’s cries.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
Ed, as the film reveals, was miraculously spared from the incinerator; an unknown number of babies born to girls attending the school did not escape that grim fate – discarded with the knowledge or at the direction of Catholic clergy who ran the school.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
And research suggests most of these purchases end up in landfills or the incinerator.
—Vince Beiser, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2025
Sugarcane provides evidence that newborns were tossed into incinerators at St. Joseph’s Mission; NoiseCat’s own father, Ed Archie NoiseCat, miraculously avoided immolation as a baby only through the intercession of a groundskeeper who heard the infant’s cries.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
Ed, as the film reveals, was miraculously spared from the incinerator; an unknown number of babies born to girls attending the school did not escape that grim fate – discarded with the knowledge or at the direction of Catholic clergy who ran the school.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
And research suggests most of these purchases end up in landfills or the incinerator.
—Vince Beiser, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Incinerator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incinerator. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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incinerator
noun
in·cin·er·a·tor
in-ˈsin-ə-ˌrāt-ər
: a furnace or a container for burning waste materials
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