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deflagrated

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past tense of deflagrate

as in ignited

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The loss later ignited the feud between Simone Biles and Riley Gaines last June after Gaines posted about the championship that same day.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Getz enjoys getting brotherly advice from Hoyer, who executed his own semi-rebuild in 2021 and worked under Theo Epstein on the 2012 Cubs rebuild that ignited the trend across baseball.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026

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As the current Cartoonist Laureate of the state, she has been highly engaged in Vermont culture and history, and says her interest in this couple was kindled by Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, director of Vermont Humanities, who encouraged her to tell their story.

— Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
The faith of these settlers kindled a fervent Protestant piety, found in the Great Revival of the Ohio Valley frontier.

— Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 8 June 2026

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During the war, Tehran had reportedly fired missiles as far as Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK military base about 2,000 miles from Iran.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Tenants of the building on Bergen Street were told to remain in their units for several hours as police investigated reports of shots fired and at least three people wounded.

— Andrew Ramos, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

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