as in combustible
capable of catching or being set on fire
with such a highly combustive inventory, the ropewalk was engulfed in flames in a matter of minutes
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Adjective
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If those Lakers — combustible and bored but built better than every other team on the planet at the time — could turn the triple play, so can Roberts’ drama-free superteam.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
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The multibillion-dollar LNG facility is the heart of Qatar’s export industry, but Ras Laffan is also inherently vulnerable to an attack due the nature of processing combustible natural gas into a liquid through miles of pipelines.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Police have arrested two more people over an attempt to place a homemade explosive device outside the Paris headquarters of Bank of America, the French domestic security service said Sunday.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The Best Time to Do These Exercises Plyometric and explosive work should be performed at the beginning of a session, after the warm-up, when the body is fresh.—
Jim Diehl CSCS,
Outside,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Combustive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/combustive. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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