ablaze
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Dunn said neighbours knew the woman next door to the property ablaze lived alone.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
The news set the internet ablaze with joy and hope.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
The oil wells set ablaze in Kuwait in the 1990s during the first Gulf War took months to extinguish and released an estimated 130 to 400 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026
One of the ships, a foreign tanker carrying Iraqi fuel oil, was ablaze in Iraqi waters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
It felt like someone was painting his back and ribs with stripes of gasoline and chili pepper and setting them ablaze.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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