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arsonist

[ahr-suh-nist] / ˈɑr sə nɪst /
NOUN
one who sets fires illegally
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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

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

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

Are any of the blazes the work of arsonists?

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 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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