flame
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“Once you wear the uniform,” he says, “the blue flame never goes out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Neither do the costumes, which are flame retardant, and add additional heft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Lomas was also selected to light the Paralympic flame in 2012 and was appointed MBE in 2017 for her fundraising efforts.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman, who stormed out of his Netflix investment a few years ago, has rekindled that old flame.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
They crept along, stumbling on the rocky floor, and the flame of the torch burned as brightly as ever.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Authorities said flames spread north and northeast, away from Somersett, with astonishing speed through extremely dry grass and brush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, normally mild and wet countries such as Belgium and Scotland, also found themselves battling flames, with the former experiencing its largest wildfire in a century.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
One shows a drone hitting a warehouse in the Orenburg region, while another shows a large plume of smoke and flames rising from its warehouse in Dagestan.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
It’s the gift that keeps on giving: They stoke the flames, and the flames reward them back.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
The flames around her exploded, as if someone had doused them in invisible fuel.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The 1988 presidential campaign of Alexander Haig, a former four-star general who served as Ronald Reagan’s first secretary of state, flamed out amid GOP infighting over the Iran–Contra affair.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
“Every one of these flamed out,” he reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
Other standouts included flamed A5 wagyu topped with foie gras and melt-in-your-mouth hamachi in yuzu and soy, finished with serrano and a dollop of sriracha.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
Doubts about a Fed rate cut next month were also flamed by the release of much-delayed September jobs data.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
His face flamed, and it was only her holding up a warning finger that prevented him from apologizing.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Showing her aching vulnerability, it's about a bank clerk with flaming locks of auburn hair who flirted with her husband.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
We have to imagine, for instance, Ron DiFrancesco riding a broken slab of drywall down a flaming stairwell and becoming the last known person to escape the South Tower before it collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A woman testified that she saw Stout get out of the flaming car and push it over the dirt mound, where it rolled down the embankment and ignited the dry vegetation at the bottom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The sky blacked by the smoke from flaming vehicles was visible from Saunders's suite in a luxury hotel along Puerto Vallarta's main strip.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
As the flaming Po-2 touched the ground, the searchlights came back on and caught a second plane.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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