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torch

[tawrch] / tɔrtʃ /


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To the contrary, the entire discussion on YouTube was about Grande’s body, not the video’s visuals or the music, a lovely torch song where she compares herself to a “petal in the pavement.”

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

Once underwater, they sliced through the ship’s steel using a torch with a self-consuming rod burning at thousands of degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

But the flames were allowed to torch the landscape for nearly two days before they arrived on the scene around Glenmore Forest Park.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

When Argentina gave the trophy back to Spain, it likely marked a passing of the torch.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

They saw far beyond the lake a bobbing pinprick of light—a torch being carried along the drive—but they did not comment on it.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Instead of working with a massive furnace, participants use small torches, making the process feel more approachable and easier to control.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

Serhiy Motsak, a shift director at one of Ukraine’s thermal-power plants, spent this past winter knocking ice from the equipment and сarrying around torches to heat it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Battalion members prepared the drones in pitch dark, illuminated only by red torches.

From Barron's May 17, 2026

Another trend visible across social networks is one of growing emergency preparedness: people stockpiling canned food, torches and water bottles, and assembling emergency backpacks.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2026

By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah’s ark.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens




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