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 rest goes to landfills, the ocean or incinerators.
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Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Keefe Harrison founded The Recycling Partnership in 2014 to boost recycling rates in the U.S., where two thirds of the solid waste that households discard every year ends up in landfills or incinerators.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
And 92 million metric tons of textiles—which can range from leftover scraps and cuttings to entire runs of fabric—can end up in warehouses, or worse, landfills or incinerators.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
More than a dozen workers at a Montana animal shelter were hospitalized last week after inhaling methamphetamine that officials burned in an on-site incinerator.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
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Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Keefe Harrison founded The Recycling Partnership in 2014 to boost recycling rates in the U.S., where two thirds of the solid waste that households discard every year ends up in landfills or incinerators.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
And 92 million metric tons of textiles—which can range from leftover scraps and cuttings to entire runs of fabric—can end up in warehouses, or worse, landfills or incinerators.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
More than a dozen workers at a Montana animal shelter were hospitalized last week after inhaling methamphetamine that officials burned in an on-site incinerator.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for incinerator
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“Incinerator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incinerator. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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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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