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incendiary

[in-sen-dee-er-ee] / ɪnˈsɛn diˌɛr i /




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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded by saying that seizing another country's assets to "pay for unrelated future claims is an incendiary precedent".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

And while his screenplay is intentionally incendiary, Tuttle understands that extreme power lies in well-crafted provocation.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

Steve Burke, editor-in-chief of the media channel Gamers Nexus, has garnered millions of views on YouTube videos bearing incendiary titles such as “Nvidia’s AI Bubble” and “The Torture Will Continue Until Shareholder Value Improves.”

From MarketWatch May 23, 2026

The actors relish the pesky, droll, frequently adorable, sometimes incendiary individuality of their roles.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2026

It is an incendiary device: who knows what we’d make of it, if we ever got our hands on it?

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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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