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incinerator

[in-sin-uh-rey-ter] / ɪnˈsɪn əˌreɪ tər /


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Cromb has held community meetings with villagers as the incinerator proposal spurs a backlash.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

They escaped the evil clutches of the gross neighbor kid next door, fled a toy collector’s plastic prison and even avoided an incinerator in one scene that scarred countless children around the world.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026

Neighbors and grassroots groups in South L.A. put their muscle together, stood up to their own council member, and stopped the Lancer project, a closed-system incinerator to burn trash into energy near the Coliseum.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

If an interested party, such as the campaigners against the incinerator plans, think the verdict of a government planning inspectorate is legally incorrect, then they can take the case to the High Court.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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