arsonist
Example Sentences
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The revelations — unveiled in a criminal complaint and attached affidavit Wednesday charging the alleged arsonist, Jonathan Rinderknecht — raise questions about what the Los Angeles Fire Department could have done to prevent the conflagration.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
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
He became the arsonist who laid claim to being the heroic firefighter.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025
His mother told The Times that he is ‘not an arsonist.’
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025
He’d grown up being called a freak, an arsonist, because whenever he got angry, things burned.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
