as in combustible
capable of catching or being set on fire
avoid wearing loose flammable clothing when using the blowtorch
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Recent Examples of flammable
While doctors have significantly refined their techniques over the subsequent 150 years—ether made patients throw up and was flammable enough to cause mid-surgery explosions—there are still outstanding questions about how anesthesia works.
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Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Cooking Utensils Many cooking utensils are made of wood (flammable) or plastic (both flammable and meltable).
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
As with any craft involving light fixtures, be sure to keep fire safety in mind—this includes using non-flammable materials and LED light bulbs (rather than incandescent) for lower heat emissions.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2025
As promising as this new technology is, SHI acknowledges that production is still challenging due to high material costs and the use of flammable or toxic precursor gases, which will make scaling up production tricky.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
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Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Cooking Utensils Many cooking utensils are made of wood (flammable) or plastic (both flammable and meltable).
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
As with any craft involving light fixtures, be sure to keep fire safety in mind—this includes using non-flammable materials and LED light bulbs (rather than incandescent) for lower heat emissions.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2025
As promising as this new technology is, SHI acknowledges that production is still challenging due to high material costs and the use of flammable or toxic precursor gases, which will make scaling up production tricky.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flammable
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See You At The Finish Line follows Lucas, a sharp-witted, working-class rower, and George, an American golden-boy captain, whose uneasy alliance evolves into a tender but combustible love story against the backdrop of the famous boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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That combustible set-up blew up in the faces of the bears who needed nothing short of a Powell decrying everything Trump, not realizing that Powell favors two wonderful factors: honesty and truth.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Over the years, this generation has played a central role in explosive political protests in the region.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
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Even though the software provider’s fiscal first-quarter earnings missed expectations, its guidance of explosive growth in the subsequent years caught analysts by surprise.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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And all this against an inflammable backdrop of geopolitical crises including but not limited to the Israel-Hamas war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.—
John Leicester,
Quartz,
15 Apr. 2024
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Heat also stresses old electrical systems — insulation breaks down; lubricants in relays dry out — and a not-insignificant amount of the subway’s electrical wiring dates to the 1920s and 1930s, some of it cloth-covered, inflammable, and pervious to water.—
Curbed,
Curbed,
28 July 2023
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“Flammable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flammable. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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