smouldering

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The photos appear to show the tank smouldering after the attack and suggest that a fire raged there for days.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Prosecutors posted images of the smouldering carriage on social media, which regional emergency services later said had been extinguished.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

AFP journalists joined a military-organised press tour through the smouldering wreckage of two former labs south of the town of Hsipaw in northeastern Shan state.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

Aerial video from the scene showed charred debris, smouldering vehicles and little remaining of the facility, which is owned by Accurate Energetic Systems.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

The fire was nothing more than a few coals smouldering in the bottom of the hole where the roots had been.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss