as in torch
a person who deliberately and unlawfully sets fire to a building or other property
they finally caught the arsonist, but only after he'd set fire to four barns
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And Donnie goes on to say that, now, shining city was full of killers and foreign infiltrators and that ol’ Lady Liberty needed to be holding an AR-15 in place of her torch.—
Jason Mott
August 14,
Literary Hub,
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New York may be without Breanna Stewart, but the Liberty have kept the torch alight in her absence.—
Devin Robertson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Arsonist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arsonist. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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