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Recent Examples of campfire
Expect no-frills musicianship under warm stage lights, a crowd swaying to pedal steel and fiddle, and the kind of intimate connection that has made Wall’s shows feel like stories shared around a campfire.
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Travis Pinson, Dallas Morning News, 15 Jan. 2026
What at first appeared to some Altadenans as merely a campfire-sized flame spread quickly, consuming the base of the tower and then everything around it.
—Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
Visitors can experience sledding down the snow hill, roasting marshmallows by a campfire and gliding around in a synthetic skate rink.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Barbecuing and having a hot grill or spending time around a campfire?
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2026
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Travis Pinson, Dallas Morning News, 15 Jan. 2026
What at first appeared to some Altadenans as merely a campfire-sized flame spread quickly, consuming the base of the tower and then everything around it.
—Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
Visitors can experience sledding down the snow hill, roasting marshmallows by a campfire and gliding around in a synthetic skate rink.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Barbecuing and having a hot grill or spending time around a campfire?
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campfire
Noun
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Amenities include two restaurants, an indoor pool, a sauna, a hot tub, bike rentals, a bonfire pit, a sandy beach, and an activity room with crafts.—
Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
19 Jan. 2026
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In the late 1800s, the Mountain House Hotel owners created a manmade version of Firefall by pushing a bonfire off Glacier Point’s edge in a ploy to attract tourism.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The temple’s lawsuit details how investigators have found Edison’s equipment to have caused multiple wildfires in the last 10 years, including the the Round Fire in 2015, the Rey Fire in 2016, the Thomas, Creek, and Rye fires in 2017,and the Woolsey Fire in 2018.—
Melody Petersen,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Cal Fire formed the task force in August, about six weeks after an unpermitted fireworks facility exploded in rural Yolo County, killing seven people and sparking a 78-acre wildfire.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Tengden said the aircraft is designed for reconnaissance, precision strikes, communications relay, emergency rescue, and forest fire prevention.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Dec. 2025
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The forest fire sequence is a good example.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Campfire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campfire. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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