arsonist
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The one damaged by an arsonist in the fall of 2024 shortly after a multimillion-dollar refurbishment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Once again, he is both arsonist and fireman.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
Indeed, Mark Zuckerberg offering Instagram-specific screen-time reports and time limits has the whiff of an arsonist handing out firefighting tips.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
A would-be arsonist explains himself — his motive: boredom — as slashing guitars scrape against the mechanized thump of a Roland drum machine.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
On February 27, 1933, one month after Hitler’s appointment, a known Communist and arsonist set fire to the Reichstag, the parliamentary building.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
His government banned construction on land affected by the blazes, and pledged harsher penalties for arsonists.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
San Bernardino County Supervisor Dawn Rowe praised investigators and prosecutors for sending a message that arsonists will be held accountable for their destructive actions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
That has not stopped idle speculation that the Palisades had been targeted by arsonists to bring down the area’s richest neighborhoods, or that angry arsonists had started all the fires.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2025
They know Flint still struggles: Its population has fallen by about 20,000 in the past decade, leaving abandoned houses frequently targeted by arsonists.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
These different features are then arranged so that a great variety of clergymen, murderers, senators, embezzlers, artists, dynamiters, humorists, arsonists, larcenists, poets, statesmen, base ball players, rinkists, pianists, capitalists, bigamists and sluggists are easily represented.
From Remarks by Nye, Bill
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