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noun

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Recent Examples of burn
Verb
Such interactions can light a fuse that may burn throughout a school year, only to erupt when students arrive for a new semester driving their parents’ car. Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023 William Lucas, 8, survived after Tonya Lucas’ boyfriend at the time rescued him from the burning home. Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
Noun
Naked Burn Gel for fire stunts; Dustin Brooks and Colin Decker for the development of Fire for Hire’s naked burn gel; and Attila T. Áfra for the Intel Open Image Denoise, and Timo Aila for his work at NVIDIA applying U-Nets to denoising. Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025 Right now, Trump is fiddling as Los Angeles (and the world) burns. David Carlin, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for burn 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burn
Verb
  • The star glowed in a metallic bronze La Pointe gown with a plunging halter neckline.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The star literally glowed wearing a sparkling gold two-piece set, complete with gold decal stickers pasted on her stomach.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The blazes — the largest being the Palisades and Eaton Fires — have scorched more than 50,000 acres, an area exceeding the size of San Francisco, and destroyed more than 16,000 structures.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 2 Feb. 2025
  • One side of our canyon is scorched bare, yet miraculously, firefighters managed to save our little community with 30 structures lost.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • A couple of men who had set up a brazier sold us paper cups of steaming tea.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The shop also sells banh tet, steamed sticky rice cakes wrapped in tropical leaves, a classic Lunar New Year dish.
    Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • An unnamed Chiefs figure, atop a horse and holding a flaming football helmet, invades the Raiders’ home of Las Vegas like the legendary Headless Horseman.
    Hannah Wise, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2025
  • But homes and landscaping burn, and spread flaming embers.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned that the texts appear authentic, sometimes linking to legitimate websites to deceive consumers.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Prosecutors said the counterfeit security seals used to deceive customs officials were also shipped to the U.S. from China.
    Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Just remember that staying engaged and aware of the type of ASMR content children consume is key to ensuring a safe and positive experience, stresses Dr. Adusei.
    Holly Garcia, Parents, 27 Jan. 2025
  • By Sunday, the flames had consumed over 28,000 acres across the Baja California peninsula.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In a way, this means no more choosing between rain on a tin roof or bubbling brook soundscapes that aim to do the same but in a far less personalized way.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2025
  • With the torrential rains, the brook quickly swelled to 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Cal Fire is still investigating the specific causes for each of the fires blazing in Los Angeles County.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Sweeping away a ‘stepping stone’ to the middle class Experts once charged with enforcing antidiscrimination within the government also fear that Trump’s anti-DEI orders threaten the trails blazed by civil servants like Powell and traversed by workers like Thompson.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Burn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burn. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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