ignite
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Families should anticipate these disparities and discuss them openly before they ignite resentments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
It is not a surprise that a summer of change at both clubs has failed to bring immediate results - but they need to ignite their season.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
During severe droughts, these normally wet landscapes can dry enough to ignite.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
"El Nino does not ignite fires. It creates the dry conditions that allow human-started fires to escape and become very large," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
Fearing that her baseball cap would ignite, Lupita clutched it to her head, turned, and ran away.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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“When you see someone, and you’re excited, or you’re angry,” Suwinyattichaiporn said, “it ignites a similar part of the brain.”
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
"As soon as there is a small spark or heat, the methane gas under the mountain of rubbish immediately ignites," Wahyu explained.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Shin may be trying to remove fuel before the room ignites on its own.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
The spark plug ignites a fuel-air mix, causing the rotor to turn a shaft, creating motion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
But it’s only in the rare instance that such an exchange ignites a word-of-mouth epidemic.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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During the disaster, however, the graphite ignited and continued burning for ten days.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The wreckage of a McLaren 720S involved in a deadly crash that killed two people in Irvine spontaneously ignited and caught fire last week inside a secure facility, Irvine police said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The protests - ignited at the Lycée Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry in the deprived Paris suburb of Créteil - have struck a chord across the country.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The spark was ignited on September 23 when 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from her lifelong Madrid home on a stretcher after the real estate firm that owned the apartment drastically hiked the rent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Harry dropped his wand: It hit Mundungus on the nose and shot red sparks into his eyebrows, which ignited.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Although the Amazon is experiencing a severe fire emergency, lightning is rarely responsible for igniting fires in Brazil's rainforest.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Containment on the Bryson fire, which has scorched 147 acres near Encinal Canyon Road since igniting, increased to 39% Friday evening, according to officials with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
AI agents may give everyday shoppers an edge, but the technology is igniting an even more intense tug of war over consumer dollars.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
“This is a deliberate first step in igniting Sanofi’s innovation engine,” the company’s recently appointed chief executive, Belen Garijo, said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
A lamplighter scuttled along the edges of the crowd igniting the gas jets atop cast-iron poles.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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