set on fire
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“My hair has been set on fire so often,” one told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Atkinson added that in the early hours of the morning on 7 May - 24 hours before the car was set on fire - Lavrynovych travelled from home to north London and back.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Electronic tchotchkes are ubiquitous but many people have little or no access to nutritious food or health care as our environment is run through a meat grinder and set on fire.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
Persian-language TV channels based outside Iran also posted images of a statue of Soleimani in the central city of Kashan being set on fire.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
My face felt like it had been set on fire.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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