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Whether it burns—and how badly—depends mostly on people: how much fuel we let accumulate, how quickly we detect and douse flames, and how much land we farm, fragment and pave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The roof later became structurally unsafe so firefighters used helicopters and water cannons to douse the flames.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

A fire extinguisher was used to douse the blaze.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Julian wants to destroy the unfinished Christophers, but can’t bring himself to douse the canvases in kerosene and light the match.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026

I splashed her to douse the flame, then grabbed the journal and lifted it—with Gum Baby still attached—out of the water with one hand.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

While wife Erica gently douses rumors, Sean McVay, Les Snead, Cooper Kupp and others hint that Aaron Donald is tempted to unretire and return to the Rams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

He no longer douses his sponge with dish liquid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Today, the tree foundation’s Green Blocks program douses neighborhoods in green, providing hundreds of free trees ranging from species like Bing cherry and fig to white pine, cedar and fir.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

Then Chambers douses a Confederate flag with gasoline and lights it on fire.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022

I shake it, and when he pulls away, his mother—her eyes still locked on me—unsnaps a keychain-Purell and vigorously douses Jordan in it, practically giving him an entire hospital bath.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

For decades, research has extolled the benefits of a Mediterranean diet low in sugar, rich in fresh fruits and vegetables and doused in olive oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Video emerged on social media showing the jet ablaze while being doused by firefighters.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

“That’s a dynamic partnership between the two of them,” said Abbott, who got doused with water in the locker room after his first win as a head coach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

The “lentils,” as Mars calls them, are then doused in a sugary coating and loaded into huge rotating drums, or pans, to be colored.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Smelling like a cesspool, I staggered into the house and took pieces of rags, doused them in water and wiped myself, but the stench remained.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Regional firefighting chief Marc Vermeulen warned his teams would still have to spend several days dousing water on remaining flames inside the forest as well as at its edges to avoid it picking up again.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

One video showed him at a nightclub, dancing on a stage wearing a New York Yankees shirt with the name “Cangrejo”—Spanish for “Crab”—on the back and dousing himself with a bottle of water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

She said urban water systems and neighbourhood fire hydrants are not built to handle dousing thousands of acres of fire.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025

Orlandini evacuated his family to Rancho Cucamonga but arrived back home in the early morning darkness to find other neighbors dousing homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025

At the entrance to the same field, a chaplain and his clerk were dousing cases of prayer books and Bibles with petrol.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan