incendiary
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State Department counterparts to protest against Musk’s appearance and his incendiary language, officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Residents of Nahal Oz said in a statement that they feared the return of incendiary kites and balloons, adding: "We will not accept a policy of containment when it comes to our security."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Yet during the Oval Office signing, Trump made a series of incendiary and unsupported statements, including: "Together, there could be a possibility they are quite lethal."
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Haney noted that investigators “found no accelerants, they found no incendiary devices that could be linked to my client.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
In 1798, writing under a pseudonym, Malthus had published an incendiary paper—An Essay on the Principle of Population—in which he had argued that the human population was in constant struggle with its limited resource pool.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Erika Kirk was standing center stage in a hotel ballroom, explaining the difference between earthly pleasures and heavenly joy, when a heckler interrupted her remarks to shout incendiaries at her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
“However imperfect the evidence, there is too much of it to ignore the apparent fact that incendiaries deliberately ignited the great fire.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
It was July 4, 1907, and the instigators were as striking as the incendiaries.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2021
"The sight of these incendiaries coming down, it was incredible, because we were looking at Townhill, and Townhill was looking across at us," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2021
The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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