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ignite

Definition for ignite

verb as in set on fire

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And once a house ignites, suggestions that Smith offered up at ReadyFest like sheltering in a bathroom are of little use, said Mark Ghilarducci, a former director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

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And he is acting like a Greek Titan who has descended with the stolen gift of fire, igniting a new age of innovation.

Mr. Korshak’s passion for fantasy illustration was ignited by his father, who decorated the boy’s bedroom with a J. Allen St. John rendition of a scene from Burroughs’s Mars series.

But Bergs was first to blink, hitting wide to present Cobolli with his seventh match point, which he seized by hammering over a first serve to ignite the celebrations.

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So to attract “a new and younger consumer,” Heaf said the company has been recruiting a network of influencers “to ignite social buzz,” all while communicating “credible, science-based claims.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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