ignite
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The clustering of short positions presents “a dormant risk of a bullish short-covering” although “it may require a bullish catalyst to ignite upside potential,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Another put it like this: "The PLP is like a tinderbox – it might just ignite in May."
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Those launches helped ignite strong interest in the category among Chinese consumers.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026
In these regions, practices such as draining peatlands for agriculture, clearing forests, and converting land for development have made peat soils far more likely to ignite.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
But the brave and lonely struggle of this man was to ignite the modern scientific revolution.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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