ash

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Recent Examples of ash Usually used to ward off frost and pests, these permeable materials offer a budget-friendly physical barrier against dust and ash too. Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2026 Through it all, their bullpen was consistent … in the way that an uncontained wildfire consistently turns acreage to ash. Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 15 July 2026 Now, the cabin where those memories were made has been reduced to ash. Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 June 2026 The fires in West Miami-Dade that have sent smoke, soot and ash into nearby communities, prompting over 200 people to leave their homes, is more than half contained as of Thursday, according to the Florida Forest Service. Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 18 June 2026 In less than 24 hours, the deadly flames reduced the entire city to ash, displacing generations of families overnight. Samantha Stokes, Essence, 6 May 2026 Many homes were reduced to ash, forcing residents into temporary housing, long-term rentals or out of the area. Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026 The bathroom is situated next to the kitchen and is notable for having an incinerating toilet – as its name implies, this burns waste to ash. Adam Williams april 23, New Atlas, 23 Apr. 2026 In the community of Waynesville, block after block was reduced to ash. Christopher Harris, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ash
Verb
  • Another is to pay fishers to catch inedible ones like the puffer fish so they can be incinerated.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
  • In 2020, the wildfires that incinerated nearly half the island took the Southern Ocean Lodge, too.
    Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • The façade was lighted from below by the exterior lights that specified the building, separated it from the other night buildings.
    Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Partnership feels friendly as nurturing Moon lights your 7th House of Partnership, trining harmonious Venus in your 11th House of Friends and Community.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The village’s daily rhythms are ordered by the passing trains—until a train arrives from Pakistan loaded with the corpses of Sikh refugees, and the community is made to cremate the dead.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
  • Taxidermy your dog or cremate or bury or whatever feels right in your heart.
    Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Miramax's explosive success with Pulp Fiction ignited an indie boom, rewrote Oscar campaigns, and blurred the line between independent cinema and the Hollywood mainstream.
    Big Think, Big Think, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Getz enjoys getting brotherly advice from Hoyer, who executed his own semi-rebuild in 2021 and worked under Theo Epstein on the 2012 Cubs rebuild that ignited the trend across baseball.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
  • Photography arrived, kindling an enthusiasm that Baudelaire, ever the cynic, compared to a lust for pornography.
    Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • Angry crowds have torched Ebola treatment centers, stormed hospitals to retrieve relatives’ bodies and attacked teams carrying out safe burials.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Costs now scale with consumption, and a handful of autonomous agents left running in the background can torch a quarter's budget in days.
    Vinay Kuruvila, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The team flew over around 1,700 square miles, firing rapid laser pulses at the ground.
    Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Witnesses told police that guests at the wedding reception began fighting with one another and that at least two handguns were drawn before shots were fired.
    Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Aerial images obtained by CNN show entire residential blocks burned and the surrounding vegetation charred.
    Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • In the first two months of this wildfire season, nearly 500,000 hectares of land have burned across Europe.
    , CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026

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“Ash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ash. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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