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Recent Examples of hellfire
Van Zweden, leading the Philharmonic with the excellent singers of Musica Sacra, slid back into old habit of blazing through a score, which robbed sections like the hellfire Dies Irae of their heft.
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Joshua Barone, New York Times, 31 May 2024
The online opinions didn’t stop at hellfire, however.
—Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
First, the advent of Marvin Miller’s reign of hellfire for the MLB players union delivered free agency, allowing players to serve out their initial contract, hit the market, and get the Yankees to pay you millions.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024
Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
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Joshua Barone, New York Times, 31 May 2024
The online opinions didn’t stop at hellfire, however.
—Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
First, the advent of Marvin Miller’s reign of hellfire for the MLB players union delivered free agency, allowing players to serve out their initial contract, hit the market, and get the Yankees to pay you millions.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024
Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hellfire
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Little ones can frolic in the Snow Bounce room or in a pit of fake snowballs in the Northern Lights section, where representations of the aurora borealis drift above.The New York Times, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Tens of thousands exposed in Iraq, Afghanistan Disposing of trash in open-air burn pits was a common practice, especially at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, which together burned trash in more than 270 pits in 2010, according to an estimate by the U.S. Defense Department's Central Command.Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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The United States’ postwar political identity has vanished into the abyss of the ballot box.Ivan Krastev, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
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The continental shelf offers refuge to creatures not suited for the shallow water or the abyss, including around New Caledonia.Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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Or did Christ die only for us, leaving any other creatures to a kind of limbo or perdition?Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024
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Although Adolf Hitler met his road to perdition, Joseph Stalin survived and extended his despotism.Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
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Kiser didn’t want to get into too much detail about the fire and brimstone Freeman spewed the day before kickoff when the 38-year-old head coach showed that this program has a weapon leading it.Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Warne would not have approved of watering down fire and brimstone.Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Politics ‘All hell will break out’: 3 foreign policy takeaways from Trump Jan. 7, 2025 The Securities and Exchange Commission has warned that cryptocurrencies are volatile investments with few safeguards to protect investors from manipulation and fraud, and cracked down on some firms.Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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The paintings in part evoked those horrors; many of them, hell scenes by Hieronymus Bosch included, made cryptic political comment on the cruelties of their day.Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Hellfire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellfire. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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