Thesaurus / burn
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Fuel spilled by a tanker burns in the Cuyahoga River on August 25th.
51 YEARS LATER, THE CUYAHOGA RIVER BURNS AGAINWES SILERAUGUST 28, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEBurn bosses in California can more easily be held liable than their peers in some other states if the wind comes up and their burn goes awry.
THEY KNOW HOW TO PREVENT MEGAFIRES. WHY WON’T ANYBODY LISTEN?BY ELIZABETH WEILAUGUST 28, 2020PROPUBLICAThere are just so many reasons not to pick up the drip torch and start a prescribed burn even though it’s the safe, smart thing to do.
THEY KNOW HOW TO PREVENT MEGAFIRES. WHY WON’T ANYBODY LISTEN?BY ELIZABETH WEILAUGUST 28, 2020PROPUBLICACalifornia, of course, uses aircraft—it has both its own fleet and can employ contractors—to mount full-court presses on fires, but the practice is certainly not limited to combating burns in the Golden State.
HOW AERIAL FIREFIGHTERS BATTLE BLAZES FROM THE SKIESROB VERGERAUGUST 27, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThe battery, she alleged, exploded and left her with severe burns.
AMAZON’S DAYS OF DODGING LIABILITY FOR ITS MARKETPLACE COULD BE NUMBEREDMARC BAINAUGUST 14, 2020QUARTZUsing the fire extinguisher now may stop you from getting burned more, but it won’t heal the burns you already have.
FIRST DRUG IS FOUND TO BLOCK THE NEW CORONAVIRUSTINA HESMAN SAEYMAY 4, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSTruth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOUOn the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSHe couldn't sell them; he couldn't burn them; he was even compelled to insure them, to his intense disgust.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThey used to declare that every unbaptised baby would go to Hell and burn for ever in fire and brimstone.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDWORDS RELATED TO BURN
- bleeding
- burning
- cheating
- clipping
- conning
- cozening
- defrauding
- despoiling
- flimflaming
- gouging
- hustling
- jerk around
- milking
- mulcting
- overcharging
- plucking
- rifling
- ripping off
- robbing
- rooking
- rope in
- running a game on
- selling a bill of goods
- shafting
- stripping
- swindling
- taking for a ride
- taking to the cleaners
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