flame
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Pete describes it as one of the most challenging environments he has ever flown in, with "multiple walls of flame", personnel and vehicles moving around the site and helicopters operating overhead.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The portfolio his circle has prepared is already impressive while he finds more football targets to keep the flame alive.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
South Korea said North Korean land mines “highly likely” caused the explosions based on the blast crater, flame patterns and the soldiers’ injuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The torch and the flame endure in an ever-changing Olympic movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
It flared up and then settled to a slow and steady flame.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
The flames which swept across the hillsides are gone.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Experts said the flames are being fanned by a turbo-charged El Nino weather phenomenon, causing the worst pollution conditions in years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Within minutes, four fellow volunteer firefighters and I arrived at a multistory house in New York’s Hudson Valley to see flames blasting through the roof.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
There is Glover, embracing a feminine aesthetic while cooking over open flames.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
It gave a low grumble and click and then lit, the flames instantly warming my skin a few degrees.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
In fact, what the race revealed were the weaknesses and limitations of an ineffective candidate who would have almost certainly flamed out in the general election.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
With Jones, a former first-round pick who flamed out with the New York Giants, Indianapolis’s success to start the season was downright historic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
My scalp still flamed, but not as badly; I could bear it.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Ali, trembling from the effects of Parkinson’s disease but with strength still evident, held the flaming torch aloft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The company said that behind the most intense "flaming zones",the fire had left a trail of burning vegetation.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
In U.S. television, there’s a tendency to open every piece of sports programming with a clash of cymbals and a rhinoceros jumping through a flaming hoop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Parkkonen, who appears on stage as enigmatic and brooding while lamenting his unanswered love next to a flaming confessional, hoped the song will serve as "a helping hand".
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
His lungs felt like he’d inhaled a flaming cabbage.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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