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Recent Examples of ash
Nineteen people were killed, and more than 4,400 homes were reduced to ash and toxic rubble.
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Jill Cowan, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
It has been reduced to ash and data, drowned in the sound of drones and the indifference of high-resolution satellites.
—Alaa Alqaisi
august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days.
—Santina Contreras, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025
Other ways to reuse the tree include: Burning the wood to ash your garden.
Making firewood.
—Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
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Jill Cowan, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
It has been reduced to ash and data, drowned in the sound of drones and the indifference of high-resolution satellites.
—Alaa Alqaisi
august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days.
—Santina Contreras, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025
Other ways to reuse the tree include: Burning the wood to ash your garden.
Making firewood.
—Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ash
Verb
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According to the Global Fashion Agenda, that is the equivalent of a garbage truck full of clothing being incinerated or sent to a landfill every second.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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But that decision has been thwarted by regulations in Flanders, Belgium, which has a ban on incinerating reusable medical devices.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The room replicating the crash is dimly lit, which Knarr said is because there was no moonlight coming from the sky to illuminate the sea.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 Nov. 2025
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Everything is dark around us, but the collision itself is a source of energy and the flash of it lights us up.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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In the following story (which reads rather like an origin-myth for the cremation rite), a dead woman who has not been cremated seems physical enough to her family: A family lived in isolation in the jungle.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
31 Oct. 2025
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No other conditions were listed, and the Annie Hall actress was cremated on Oct. 14.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Later Punch would finally ignite the Schollmaier Arena crowd with a one-handed slam dunk in transition.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Nov. 2025
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Trump's relationship with both sports and celebrity culture has been a recurring feature of his political brand, and his responses to public figures like Swift often ignite widespread debate and online discourse.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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Letter, which is not a romantic fantasy but is rather a straight-up romance, is one of her earlier books and was re-released this year, hitting best-seller status and re-kindling Hollywood interest.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
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The drought and near-record temperatures dried out the lush scrub, turning it to kindling.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Oops … North Carolina scored early and often, on the inside and beyond the arc, in torching the Jayhawks for 58 second-half points.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
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Their acquittal sparked the Liberty City riots in 1980, which left 18 dead and swaths of the city torched.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles into Israel in response and attacked the Middle East's largest American military base in Qatar.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The news comes a week after the school fired football head coach Brian Kelly and then former athletic director Scott Woodward a few days later.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Walk out of a play’s shadows back into the clear light of day without a there to take with you, and even a burning cauldron will become little more than a brief candle.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Veg/cm/61 Fire has been burning on private land.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Ash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ash. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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