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Recent Examples of charring
The fire burned for 26 days, charring 23,000 acres in Orange and Riverside counties.
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Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2025
What To Know In a Sunday update, the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team said the two fires have burned more than 121,307 acres, with the Elk fire charring 14,635 acres and the Lee fire scorching 106,672 acres.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2025
What To Know In a Sunday update, the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team said the two fires have burned more than 121,307 acres, with the Elk fire charring 14,635 acres and the Lee fire scorching 106,672 acres.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charring
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Historic data According to NIFC records for 2024, lightning ignited 305 fires in California, scorching 90,206 acres of wildland.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Further questions remain as to the cost and environmental impact of running and cooling miles of data centers in the Middle East’s scorching deserts, as well as the ability to draw AI engineers to live in Saudi Arabia.—
Natasha Turak,
CNBC,
27 Aug. 2025
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The second series of Meghan Markle's cooking show has been hit by searing criticism from reviewers landing it an even worse Rotten Tomatoes rating than Season 1.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Each performance arrives with a sense of reinvention — not unlike Hepburn, whose leap from screwball comedies in the 1930s to searing dramas in the 1960s charted an artistic evolution rarely equaled in Hollywood.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
30 Aug. 2025
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Think lighting by a faint, lantern glow; dinner in a basket; and a skylight to view the Milky Way.—
Karin Jones,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Sep. 2025
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The brand works with award-winning designers to create collections of furniture, accessories and lighting for private homes and business spaces.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Charring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charring. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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