burning
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One of two destructive wildfires burning near Big Sur in Monterey County has nearly doubled in size over the last two days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Anthropic will also have to figure out how to sell A.I. without burning cash.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
"However, if these batteries are faulty, over-charged or damaged, the stored energy may be released rapidly in the form of flame jets and burning projectiles," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Don’t miss: ‘My main goal is to help people’: I’m single, 74, with $10 million burning a hole in my pocket.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
When you’re grumpy, it’s hard to un-grumpy yourself, but she sighed and calmed the burning in her chest long enough to apologize for her tone of voice.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
In August 2023, Sweden's intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of one to five, saying the Koran burnings had made the country a "prioritised target".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
On Friday, she urged people to get copies of The Handmaid's tale before "they have public book burnings of it".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
From there, your personal security detail can ferry you around town, to any number of errands, book signings, book burnings or, presumably, wherever you’d like to bring a few armed beefcakes.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025
"As natural habitats adapted to these controlled burnings, we see the expansion of fire-adapted species such as Eucalyptus, primarily on the wetter, eastern side of the Bass Strait islands," said Adeleye.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
The fire flared up and swallowed the dry paper, and I found my thoughts shifting to Nazi book burnings.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
