as in fire
a destructive burning
the intense heat of the raging inferno repeatedly drove back the firefighters
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The affidavit reportedly shows that Garber was linked to the fire after investigators discovered the location where the inferno was first ignited.
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Greg Wehner, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2024
In Nickel Boys, the inferno is called the Nickel Academy and the story zooms in on a friendship between two young men, studious and hopeful Elwood, played by Ethan Herisse, and Brandon Wilson’s more cynical Turner.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024
This is important because any sort of flaw in a battery could lead to an inferno, says Venkat Srinivasan, who studies batteries and directs the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science at the US’s Argonne National Laboratory.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2024
Since then, things are … different: That burn has become an inferno in the form of 68 million streams per week, star-making appearances at Coachella and on Jimmy Fallon, and a Lollapalooza performance that may well have drawn a record-setting crowd.
—Charlie Harding, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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Greg Wehner, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2024
In Nickel Boys, the inferno is called the Nickel Academy and the story zooms in on a friendship between two young men, studious and hopeful Elwood, played by Ethan Herisse, and Brandon Wilson’s more cynical Turner.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024
This is important because any sort of flaw in a battery could lead to an inferno, says Venkat Srinivasan, who studies batteries and directs the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science at the US’s Argonne National Laboratory.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2024
Since then, things are … different: That burn has become an inferno in the form of 68 million streams per week, star-making appearances at Coachella and on Jimmy Fallon, and a Lollapalooza performance that may well have drawn a record-setting crowd.
—Charlie Harding, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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“Inferno.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inferno. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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