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ignite

[ig-nahyt] / ɪgˈnaɪt /


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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

“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

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

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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