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to set (something) on fire
worried that lightning will kindle the forest in the drought-stricken nature preserve
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Recent Examples of kindling
Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
This environment resembled an overgrown forest cluttered with kindling and parched by drought.
—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
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Noun
Some have turned out to be fragments, which is even more remarkable: The worse the specimen, the more likely it’s deemed kindling and thrown on the fire.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
This environment resembled an overgrown forest cluttered with kindling and parched by drought.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindling
Noun
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Salt can cause rust, which can damage equipment involving braking, steering, suspension and fuel systems, according to Consumer Reports.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Jan. 2025
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Workers at their two ports only load and unload containers onto ships and supply them with fuel.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
4 Jan. 2025
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As some steelmakers are beginning to embrace cleaner technology, climate and clean air advocates say Nippon's plan would have slowed the transition to greener steel by extending the life of dirty, old coal-burning furnaces.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
Verb
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This specific timing seemed to be a clever nod to the racing numbers of Leclerc (16) and Hamilton himself (44), igniting a social media frenzy.—
Alex Harrington,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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News of the incident travelled around the globe, igniting outrage and sorrow.—
Megan Feringa,
The Athletic,
2 Jan. 2025
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The physical limitations of modern spacecraft pose significant challenges for reaching interstellar space in a human lifetime, especially with limited room onboard for carrying propellant or batteries.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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This launch debuted a more advanced, slightly taller version of Starship, known as Version 2 or Block 2, with larger propellant tanks, a new avionics system, and redesigned feed lines flowing methane and liquid oxygen propellants to the ship's six Raptor engines.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
17 Jan. 2025
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The mandate also targets oil and gas leasing in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and again revokes the conservation status of 28 million acres of public land that had been withdrawn from mineral and energy development since 1971.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
31 Jan. 2025
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Or the energy could hint at something more exotic: interactions between dark matter and itself, or unknown interactions between dark matter and more familiar matter.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Stray animals are also at risk of suffering from heat exhaustion during scorching summers.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
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Heat over medium heat, stirring frequently to avoid scorching the milk.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2024
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Fires caused by utility equipment have increased the risk and economic vulnerability for power providers as extreme weather driven by climate change has challenged the nation’s aging electrical infrastructure.—
Ivan Penn,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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But once the plane was airborne, the board staff said, it could have been pulled out of a sudden stall if the crew had applied emergency power and lowered its nose.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Kindling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindling. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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