- present participle of burn.
burning
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A slow-motion collapse in South Korea’s Kospi index erased $2.5 trillion in value, burning investors who bet on the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
‘My main goal is to help people’: I’m single, 74, with $10 million burning a hole in my pocket.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Scientists say human behavior, including the unchecked burning of fossil fuels, is warming the global climate and interrupting weather patterns.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
This helps the body continue burning fat even when calorie intake is low or weight is lost.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
As the woman talked, I could feel my eyes burning with tears, which I forced to stay behind my eyes and not betray me by running down my cheeks.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
In August 2023, Sweden's intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of one to five, saying the Koran burnings had made the country a "prioritised target".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Last year, Sapo accused Iranian intelligence of hacking into a text messaging service to send 15,000 messages to Swedes, after several Quran burnings.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
From there, your personal security detail can ferry you around town, to any number of errands, book signings, book burnings or, presumably, wherever you’d like to bring a few armed beefcakes.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025
"As natural habitats adapted to these controlled burnings, we see the expansion of fire-adapted species such as Eucalyptus, primarily on the wetter, eastern side of the Bass Strait islands," said Adeleye.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
It took nine separate burnings before the fire got down to the straw and cotton ticking of its insides.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
