combustive
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He was described as a combustive mixture of "victimhood and arrogance".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
The basement of a rowhouse in South Baltimore exploded Saturday morning due to the combustive combination of a live wire and leaking natural gas.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
Thomas and Sumbry sometimes sound like the free-jazz pioneers Cecil Taylor and Sunny Murray going at it; elsewhere, Wilkins and the drummer collide with the combustive power of John Coltrane and Elvin Jones.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
Those combustive hits are a large part of what draws us to football.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2018
So taken, salt, sulphur, and mercury are equivalent to the combustive, the combustible, and the combust, under one or other of which all known bodies, or ponderable substances, may be classed and distinguished.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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