incinerate
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You probably aren’t rich or well-connected enough to have a 24 year-old incinerate your savings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The government will invest $3.5 billion in a project to build 34 waste-to-energy sites within two years that would incinerate garbage to produce electricity, he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
One man was caught using a blowtorch to incinerate debris in West Hills as the Kenneth fire raged above him, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Some incinerate the remains with medical waste like tumors or kidney stones, while others opt for unmarked mass burials at cemeteries, and sometimes parents can find out a general area if they wish to visit.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2024
Although he had never built a kiln before, he believed his design would generate temperatures extreme enough to incinerate anything within.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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The machine incinerates the feathers at extremely high temperatures, measuring the emitted mercury.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023
Then a specialist smelting firm retrieves around 90% of the metals in the phone - a process which incinerates the plastic parts.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021
Daenerys incinerates the rooms where, years ago, Ned argued with Robert and the Small Council not to assassinate her.
From Slate ● May 17, 2019
This is the game you burn, even though it may also be the game that incinerates the team’s playoff chances.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016
Springs of ancient wrath spray and fling its repressed fury , heeding not whom or what it incinerates when gravity reclaims lava?s spurts .
From NATURAE by Dom
Roughly half the waste ends up incinerated, 38% digested and 12% recycled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Felix, a food redistribution charity, collects surplus food from shops and other providers so that it is not thrown away or incinerated.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Cars and batteries and plastics and metals and other things were incinerated, and a toxic plume traveled for miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Elsewhere in France, a fire in the Fontainebleau forest near Paris incinerated a tenth of the UNESCO-listed site in mid-July, after several other wildfires in the country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
In the daytime their crisp, incinerated corpses littered the floor and windowsills, and until Kochu Maria swept them away in her plastic dustpan, the air smelled of Something Burning.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Flames have torn through vast swathes of forest in both countries, incinerating properties and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
After all, the “Toy Story” franchise has had pure villains before — one of them almost got away with incinerating the toys for good!
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
It was also the world’s biggest bird fryer, incinerating thousands of birds a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
She fought for breath, as if that stare was incinerating all the oxygen in the room, as if she would be consumed along with it.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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