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Chandler flexes the charisma that made his “Friday Night Lights” father figure Coach Taylor such an indelible figure, while Pierre’s buttoned-down smolder slowly simmers the tension between them.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

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

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

A ragged wave of shouts gave answer, just as Stannis's glove began to smolder.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

While the first hour of this “Fire” smolders like an unusual domestic drama, pivotal disasters bring the lovers crashing down to earth — literally.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022

In "The Underground Railroad" he smolders as Royal, a free Black man who rescues an enslaved woman, Cora, from a heartless bounty hunter who never stops chasing her.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2021

As the Alisal fire smolders in Santa Barbara County, residents in Los Angeles and Ventura counties on Friday were bracing for the arrival of critical fire weather and the threat of Santa Ana winds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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

The WSJ Logistics Report’s Liz Young writes that the fire started June 17 at the 500,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood and smoldered for days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The fire started June 17 at the 500,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood and smoldered for days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

According to the ATF special agent, a firebrand became lodged within dense chaparral and then smoldered and burned within the roots of the vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025

The fire, contained to a single building, smoldered for several days in mid-January.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

There smoldered in him the hope that Max had made him feel in the first long talk they had had.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

With every step farther into “the pile,” what rescue workers came to call the smoldering mass of debris, a coating of white powder got thicker and deeper—like snow that wasn’t snow, my father recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Drought changes that dramatically, allowing flames to enter the peat itself and continue smoldering below the surface.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

The blaze reduced a small stretch of mostly women-owned shops and a beloved restaurant to smoldering ruins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Firefighters and police, some wearing face masks, were working amid the twisted, smoldering wreckage of the aircraft.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

I saw the familiar image of a smoldering volcano—Mount St. Helens.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan