burn
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When it tried to relight 13 engines for a landing burn, only some turned on, leading to the booster having a hard splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
You don’t need to be rich to burn the road behind you to the point of no return, just confident enough to keep barreling forward.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Hugh Bonneville’s stress-and-coffee agita as director of integrity for the games will burn a hole in your stomach just from watching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
When the fire alerts sounded on telephones, "I thought everything was going to burn, the house and everything," she said at the sports hall, where they sat dozing and eating snacks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Can you tell her we’re not going to burn her?”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Computer simulations suggested that earlier prescribed burns prevented approximately 1,900 giant sequoia deaths.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
When your home is burning, and the local fire department doesn’t show up, it burns down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
You may remember the president invoking it repeatedly in California, after 2018’s deadly Camp Fire and during last year’s Palisades burns.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb has visited survivors at two hospitals, where they are being treated for burns, smoke inhalation and shock.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
South Indian food is so spicy it burns on the way out, but it’s worth it.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
Garden hose in hand, Georges Clivaz sprayed water along a road leading to his property in Saint-Jean-d'Illac in Gironde as the blaze burned a few kilometres away.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57% since summer 2022, according to the World Health Organization.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The amount of U.S. land burned each year in the 2020s — averaged out over a decade — is now more than twice what it was 30 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
That perception changed dramatically after the 2020 and 2021 fire seasons, when images showed entire groves filled with the burned remains of trees that had survived for centuries.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
This must be the lighthouse that burned down where the motel is now.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
France has been worst-affected, with an area of 42,000 hectares burnt, making it one of the largest forest fires since World War Two.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
"A total of 80 homes have burnt, around 50 of which have been completely destroyed," he said, adding that there had been no casualties reported so far.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Iraqi troops burnt hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells as they withdrew after their 1991 defeat, straining the country's energy resources and causing an environmental crisis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation Chief Helen Paavola told local news outlet CityNews in an interview that an aerial flyover showed that her community has been "burnt to ashes".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In a room without a window, there burnt a fire guarded by a high and strong fender, and a lamp suspended from the ceiling by a chain.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Some 220,000 people have been evacuated in France and more than 100,000 in Spain, where fires are burning "uncontrolled" west of Madrid.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Tokyo had dollars burning a hole in its national pocket.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The findings provide strong evidence that prescribed burning can help protect sequoia groves by reducing the amount of fuel available when a major wildfire arrives.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
A separate fire burning near the town of Biscarrosse, farther south, has destroyed close to 8,900 acres so far and forced the evacuation of 36,000 people, according to the French Interior Ministry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Four or five paragraphs were devoted to detailing the theater design—Oriental deities, minarets, hanging rugs, burning incense.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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