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cinder

[sin-der] / ˈsɪn dər /
NOUN
hot ash
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Video of the rescue posted by the police department shows the Salinas Fire Department breaking down the wall and finding cinder block behind it.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

“The industry was created 60 or 70 years ago with chicken wire and cinder blocks,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.

From Slate Mar. 30, 2026

His throne room is made of cinder blocks and has a dirt floor.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

But today the black cinder streets are empty.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

But as she wandered through the wreckage on Thursday, she stepped amid cinders left by the flames that had swarmed the land and erased the life she had built.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2025

"I've been relieved from the burden of my stuff because it's all in cinders."

From BBC Jan. 10, 2025

Burning characters to cinders does little but to flatten colonialism into a fiery spectacle.

From Salon Mar. 3, 2024

As cinders rained around her, the woman tried to flag down people driving past for a ride.

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 2023

“Gawk at a bunch of implements in the Montezuma railroad yard with all those cinders underfoot?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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