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capable of catching or being set on fire with a fiery vapor like that, the lighting of a single match could cause an explosion

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Recent Examples of fiery Yes, after a six-year absence, Long’s Diane returned for Cheers’ final episode, briefly rekindling her fiery romance with ex-fiance Sam Malone (Ted Danson) before realizing that they’re simply not cut out for the long haul. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 21 May 2025 Prior to Malone’s firing, team and league sources indicated the team’s most important players, including Jokić, had grown frustrated and fatigued by Malone’s fiery ways. William Guillory, New York Times, 21 May 2025 How he will be remembered: Connolly was a fiery veteran Democrat on Capitol Hill. The Hill, 21 May 2025 Washington — Birds were sucked into both engines of a FedEx cargo plane that made a fiery landing in March at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released Wednesday. Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for fiery
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Adjective
  • Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Peña said that because the physical changes to the third floor will be minimal, the new flea market should be open in the next couple of weeks — just in time to avoid Miami’s searing summer heat and sudden thunderstorms.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
  • Pyroclastic clouds, or a dense mixture of ash, gas and rock dispersed during a volcanic eruption, caused a searing, rapid avalanche of debris to fill the home, Zuchtriegel said.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
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  • Gabriella is a cousin of King Charles through her father Prince Michael's side of the family and a passionate musician who played an advisory role around the musical performances for Kate's Together at Christmas carol service in December at Westminster Abbey.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 19 May 2025
  • It’s been possible, but hard to find Fettercairn from independent bottlers in the United States, and those who seek it out are passionate about it, Boice said.
    Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
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  • Whether American retirees have enough savings and benefits to live comfortably in retirement is, however, a matter of spirited debate.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Following a series of spirited performances in the finale, the votes were counted, and Fradiani was declared the winner.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025
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  • And, yeah, Saw huffing on the very combustible rhydo probably doesn’t help him stay even-keeled.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Without home insurance, banks won’t lend and construction won’t start in these predictably combustible areas on the outskirts of our cities and at the edge of nature.
    Max Taves, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The crew is under the supervision of the capable Mensah (Noma Dumezweni) who is prone to panic attacks as the group visits an irritable planet at the behest of The Corporation — a powerful business conglomerate where profit is indeed king.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
  • It’s said to cause people to become irritable, aggravate health problems, and abrade mechanical devices.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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  • That's pretty vague, but the season 2 teaser trailer highlights several of the aforementioned foes and woes, from a host of haunted dolls and a swarm of bees to a flaming, winged creature and the gnarly sight of Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in his Hyde form.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Earth upon Earth has opened and already come to the iced or flaming end of everything except sludge or scales or fur.
    Julie Swarstad Johnson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
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  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
  • If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019

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“Fiery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiery. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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