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deflagrating

verb

present participle of deflagrate

as in igniting

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The assailants used firearms and explosives, igniting the vehicle.

— Widlore Mérancourt, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
Juba, South SudanAP — A drone strike on a market in Abyei, a border region disputed by Sudan and South Sudan, hit a nearby fuel depot, killing at least 153 people and igniting a fire that was still burning Tuesday, a local official said.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

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Although Chen Mechan is accused of firing on the Salvadoran’s vehicles, sources said its heavily armed men received backup from Joseph’s 400 Mawozo, which controls the neighboring territory.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026
Ballard is gone, so if the current trend continues firing Steichen is the next logical move.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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Anxiety over America’s build-out of data centers has reached Wall Street in recent days, kindling fears that the artificial intelligence boom is unsustainable.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
This wildfire season was supercharged by heavy rains in January that spurred vegetation growth, which became kindling when the summer heat arrived.

— Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

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The deep-space image reveals a 230-light-year-wide swathe of the glowing emission nebula N159, threaded with denser filaments of reddish molecular hydrogen that hide countless energetic young stars.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 Oct. 2026
The yellow Pokémon mascot had glowing glasses and ears that changed colors along with the set.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of glowing

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In a burning plasma, fusion reactions themselves supply most of the heating.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
The industry, documents show, saw CCS as a way to forestall that outcome, allowing the world to keep burning fossil fuels while simply burying the pollution underground.

— Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of burning

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The ensemble fills the Ahmanson with blazing, amplified sound.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
While GPUs can crunch numbers at blazing speeds, they are bottlenecked by the comparatively slow copper that carries the output of that math from GPU to GPU.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026

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Peltola is a gun-owning, fish-catching Alaska-bush native, who has worked for mines and supports oil drilling, and is allied with the state’s largest labor unions.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
But for audiences outside North America, catching Nathan Fielder’s three-hour documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes — now expected to be a major player in awards season — has become a frustrating waiting game.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

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