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pyre

[pahyuhr] / paɪər /
NOUN
large fire
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Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

He was born to pose backlit by a pyre of flaming zombies and does so here, with the hot wind tickling his locks perfectly.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

Custer firefighters prepared and lighted the torches for residents to carry in a march to the pyre Saturday night in the 11th Burning Beetle fest, the Rapid City Journal reported.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024

“The nails were not used in the construction of the pyre, and had no practical purpose,” said Johan Claeys, an archaeologist at Catholic University Leuven and the lead author of the paper.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023

He stroked Lixxa’s long white ears and she whickered, and he murmured sweet things to her before continuing, “I am riding over the funeral pyre of the ijji with the Godslayer. Whose secretary I am.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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