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Instead of racing through trees and vegetation, these fires smolder through dried wetland soils and large deposits of peat, often continuing underground at relatively low temperatures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Chandler flexes the charisma that made his “Friday Night Lights” father figure Coach Taylor such an indelible figure, while Pierre’s buttoned-down smolder slowly simmers the tension between them.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

As a result, they may overlook slower, less visible fires that smolder deep within peat and organic soils.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

Passions still smolder below the surface, but there is not enough oxygen to let them flame into life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

The firefighters held their position until the fierce heat began to singe the hair on their heads and arms, and their clothes began to smolder.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Guy, who is positioned from the first as a soulmate, smolders where Theo is sensitive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

“A holdover fire is a fire that smolders undetectably,” Martin said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

Elliot smolders, barely contained by a cravat, whether blocking the path when Anne is on a walk with her family, or entering a room.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2022

The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The WSJ Logistics Report’s Liz Young writes that the fire started June 17 at the 500,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood and smoldered for days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The fire started June 17 at the 500,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood and smoldered for days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Prosecutors said the Lachman fire smoldered underground for a week before exploding into the deadly Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Prosecutors allege the evidence shows the Lachman fire — which officials thought had been extinguished hours by Jan. 2 — smoldered for days and reignited amid hurricane-force winds on Jan. 7.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Little fires burned in the underbrush, and trees smoldered.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

ACOTAR, as it is known to aficionados, blends the swords-and-sorcery of fantasy epics like "Game of Thrones" with the smoldering romance familiar to readers of Danielle Steel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

“It is hot, smoldering at this particular point, but the incident is still within a scope that it could decrease or continue going.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

With every step farther into “the pile,” what rescue workers came to call the smoldering mass of debris, a coating of white powder got thicker and deeper—like snow that wasn’t snow, my father recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Drought changes that dramatically, allowing flames to enter the peat itself and continue smoldering below the surface.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

As I watched him follow the smoldering sailor down the hatch, I had a terrible feeling.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan