immolation
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With the city’s immolation, Hirohito bowed to the inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
UnitedHealth Group shares fell more than 50% over the course of a single month in spring 2025, a spectacular immolation for a healthcare behemoth that has operations touching every inch of the sector.
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
They lived in the state capital, Jaipur, just two hours from the village, but learnt of their son-in-law’s death and their daughter’s immolation from the next day’s newspaper.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
If West felt chastened by his recent blowback, it didn’t show on the album’s title track, where he alluded to his recent career immolation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Two tears slid down her fallen cheeks, in and out of the myriad coruscations of immolation and abnegation and time.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing immolation
"The Cask of Amontillado"
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 21–26
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