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This environment resembled an overgrown forest cluttered with kindling and parched by drought.
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Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
Amazon has a firewood splitter that’s easy to use and creates perfectly sized kindling.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2024
The Street of Life display shows a typical blockade-era apartment, with a stove in the center of a room, windows covered by blankets to save heat and the leftovers of furniture used for kindling.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
Charcoal or kindling should do the trick for non-gas grills.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 27 June 2024
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Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
Amazon has a firewood splitter that’s easy to use and creates perfectly sized kindling.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2024
The Street of Life display shows a typical blockade-era apartment, with a stove in the center of a room, windows covered by blankets to save heat and the leftovers of furniture used for kindling.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
Charcoal or kindling should do the trick for non-gas grills.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 27 June 2024
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“Kindling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kindling. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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kindling
noun
kin·dling
ˈkin-(d)liŋ 
: material that burns easily and is used to start a fire
Medical Definition
kindling
noun
kind·ling
ˈkin-dliŋ
: the electrophysiological changes that occur in the brain as a result of repeated intermittent exposure to a subthreshold electrical or chemical stimulus (as one causing seizures) so that there develops a usually permanent decrease in the threshold of excitability
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