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fire

verb as in detonate or throw a weapon

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But the 29-year-old recently came under fire on the app, after material seeming to show a fundraising page claiming she had been diagnosed with gastric cancer went viral.

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Alcaraz saw off a second break point with an ace and finally got out of the draining, 21-minute service game when Fritz fired long, celebrating as if he had won the match.

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The first shots were fired by Justice Clarence Thomas in his stinging dissent to Obergefell.

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The blast near a metro station by the historic Red Fort injured at least 20 others and set several nearby cars on fire, the police said.

It will take a couple of weeks following the storm to assess how vegetation responds, he said, but the expected precipitation “definitely should start to make a big difference in the fire season.”

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