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ashes

noun as in powder remains after a fire

noun as in ruins

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Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war.

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Three people have been arrested and charged in an investigation into missing ashes at a funeral directors.

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“But answering letters is far less unpleasant than picking lentils out of ashes, so I shall do my best and try to be cheerful about it.”

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Sporting Times journalist Reginald Shirley Brooks wrote a satirical article stating that English cricket had died and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".

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If Gaza ever rises from the ashes, he doesn't expect to be around to see it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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