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Recent Examples of fire and brimstone
Despite all the progressive fire and brimstone descending on Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency is making only a down payment on shrinking the administrative state.
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Robert J. Delahunty, National Review, 3 Mar. 2025
This wasn’t the fire and brimstone of fundamentalism; this was the joyful, big-tent-style Christianity of Billy Graham.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2025
Kiser didn’t want to get into too much detail about the fire and brimstone Freeman spewed the day before kickoff when the 38-year-old head coach showed that this program has a weapon leading it.
—Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Warne would not have approved of watering down fire and brimstone.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Robert J. Delahunty, National Review, 3 Mar. 2025
This wasn’t the fire and brimstone of fundamentalism; this was the joyful, big-tent-style Christianity of Billy Graham.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2025
Kiser didn’t want to get into too much detail about the fire and brimstone Freeman spewed the day before kickoff when the 38-year-old head coach showed that this program has a weapon leading it.
—Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Warne would not have approved of watering down fire and brimstone.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire and brimstone
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More David Cannon/Getty Images The Walker Cup pits teams comprised of the top 10 male amateur players from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland against each other.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Sep. 2025
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Trimeresurus nujiang, also known as the Nujiang green pit-viper, is a new arboreal, or tree-dwelling, snake species known only from the high-altitude evergreen forests that border the canyon in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, according to the study.—
Lauren Liebhaber
September 2,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But, unbeknownst to them, the maid of honor (Wilson) is actually a secret agent ready to rain hellfire upon anyone who would dare ruin her best friend's wedding.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 June 2025
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Under an especially beautiful carbon fiber fairing lurks an inline four engine punching out over 230 hp (169 kW) of electronically refined hellfire.—
Joe Salas
May 25,
New Atlas,
25 May 2025
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The Panthers want to climb out of the NFL abyss in 2025.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Sep. 2025
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Inside China, however, the country often seems to be not taking over the world so much as sinking into an autocratic abyss.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
26 Aug. 2025
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And there’s nothing to do but flee as though escaping perdition or howl as though hunting salvation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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Yet, the measure was promptly shuffled into the House Rules Committee, where it could be buried to perdition.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2025
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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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