incinerator
noun
in·cin·er·a·tor
in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrā-tər 
: one that incinerates
especially
: a furnace or a container for incinerating waste materials
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The horrors didn’t end there; some girls impregnated by priests and other men of the cloth allegedly had their babies taken from them and killed in incinerators.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 July 2024
As cremation is prohibited in the Jewish faith, Zebco constructs the country’s first incinerator using, grimly, the schematics from an actual concentration camp.
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Its residents make up just 6.5% of the city’s population, yet host two-thirds of the city’s waste sites, incinerators, and factories.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 June 2024
Homeowners concluded the trouble was coming from Covanta’s enormous trash-to-energy plant on Enterprise Drive, where incinerators burn more than 700 tons of garbage every day.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 July 2024
As cremation is prohibited in the Jewish faith, Zebco constructs the country’s first incinerator using, grimly, the schematics from an actual concentration camp.
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Its residents make up just 6.5% of the city’s population, yet host two-thirds of the city’s waste sites, incinerators, and factories.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 June 2024
Homeowners concluded the trouble was coming from Covanta’s enormous trash-to-energy plant on Enterprise Drive, where incinerators burn more than 700 tons of garbage every day.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
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“Incinerator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incinerator. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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incinerator
noun
in·cin·er·a·tor
in-ˈsin-ə-ˌrāt-ər
: a furnace or a container for burning waste materials
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