Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deflagrated
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North Texas transfer Chandler Morris has ignited Elliott’s offense and is 11th nationally in passing yards.—
David Ubben,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025 -
In 1965, Casaro burst onto the international scene with his poster for John Huston’s epic The Bible in the Beginning … (1966), which ignited a long collaboration with De Laurentiis.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Hearing his wife recall painful memories due to the family feud kindled a recent memory for Todd, too — an angry one.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Sep. 2025
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Anhedönia’s earliest exposure to contemporary culture came in the form of the true-crime serials her grandmother loved, which kindled her own interest in the macabre.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
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After five seasons in New York, Tom Thibodeau was fired by the Knicks at the start of the summer.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The device sounded terrifying – an apparently new, nuclear capable IRBM, fired with multiple conventional warheads, that the Kremlin boasted could rip through European defenses.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Deflagrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deflagrated. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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