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pyre

[pahyuhr] / paɪər /
NOUN
large fire
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As The Scythe illustrates, From The Pyre is a deeply personal record – even though the band have a tendency to self-mythologise and dress their stories in florid, theatrical outfits.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Black, whose television work also includes “Big Love” and “When We Rise,” most recently debuted the miniseries “Under the Banner of Heaven,” starring Andrew Garfield as police officer Jeb Pyre.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2022

Jeb Pyre investigating a double homicide in the fictional town of East Rockwell, Utah.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2022

Pyre prays in his office, and he’s not the only officer to do so.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2022

The incense of seared varnish; the piny smoke from building-blocks tossed into the flames; the thick wool stinks of dated shirts and cowboy-suits, gasoline-soaked and tossed into the Potlatch Pyre.

From The Great Potlatch Riots by Lang, Allen Kim




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