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As a result, they may overlook slower, less visible fires that smolder deep within peat and organic soils.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

"Peatlands and organic soils can smolder for weeks to years, releasing enormous amounts of ancient carbon."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

Passions still smolder below the surface, but there is not enough oxygen to let them flame into life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

After Los Angeles firefighters suppressed the Jan. 1 fire known as the Lachman fire, it continued to smolder and burn underground, “unbeknownst to anyone,” according to federal officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

When she did not come on Sunday afternoon, either, the fire in him weakened to a smolder.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Guy, who is positioned from the first as a soulmate, smolders where Theo is sensitive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Elliot smolders, barely contained by a cravat, whether blocking the path when Anne is on a walk with her family, or entering a room.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2022

Independent analyst Valery Karbalevich said that while the Russian money has buttressed Lukashenko’s rule for now, the broad discontent smolders and could spill over at any moment.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021

The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Rinderknecht is charged with starting the Lachman fire, which smoldered underground for a week before exploding into the deadly Palisades fire on Jan. 7, 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Prosecutors allege the evidence shows the Lachman fire — which officials thought had been extinguished hours by Jan. 2 — smoldered for days and reignited amid hurricane-force winds on Jan. 7.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

As parts of the city smoldered, many turned to Didion’s aching, poetic rendering of a paradise lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

The blaze, which firefighters had said was contained hours later, smoldered underground in dense vegetation for days until powerful winds on Jan. 7 caused it to spread, authorities said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

Patches of flame still smoldered on the hillside.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

About a ton of smoldering chemicals in big drums had released chlorine-compound fumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

“Heartbroken beyond words,” Hilton wrote while sharing live ABC7 footage of the smoldering remains of her home.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Corvette gets distracted by a mysterious French model played by LaKeith Stanfield, smoldering like Rudolph Valentino.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Aside from McIndoe and Pike, the four other firefighters who testified that they were at the burn scar on Jan. 2 said they did not see smoldering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

He had come to take pictures of the smoldering volcano, and his camera was out and ready.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone