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arsonist

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

Investigators discovered that the man in the video and the alleged arsonist was the president of the Screamin’ Demons Motorcycle Club, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 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

Farinacci had been struggling since the birth of his son in May 2025, according to the affidavit, and became fascinated with fires and arsonists.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

His government banned construction on land affected by the blazes, and pledged harsher penalties for arsonists.

From Barron's Oct. 11, 2025

He bragged of catching more than 40 serial arsonists, and explored their methods and psychology in articles for American Fire Journal.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 29, 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

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 Bill Nye




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