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firefights

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plural of firefight

as in fires

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There is a history of large plume dominated fires this time of year with similar weather and fuel conditions, including the Bridge, Bobcat, and Station fires.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
See map of Ross Fire Busy wildfire season The fire comes amid a busy wildfire season, as areas of the country face dry conditions that create the perfect environment for fires to start.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of fires

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The development comes as the global shipping industry contends with attacks around the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, higher energy prices, and sharply reduced traffic through some of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
The move follows months of Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries and logistics hubs that have disrupted fuel supplies and online commerce, deepening economic strain and public frustration as Russia’s war enters its fifth year.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of attacks

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Meta and Anthropic also disclosed their own systems took unsanctioned actions during cybersecurity tests, a wake-up call for the AI and cybersecurity industry.

— Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
This allows the system to learn individual movements and combine them into more complex actions.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of actions

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The policy updates come amid the slew of ongoing legal battles by players who were originally part of the 2022 high school recruiting class seeking a fifth year of collegiate eligibility.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
Then came battles with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service.

— Sam Gringlas, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of battles

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One of them might just be to try and keep this conflict at a low simmer here instead of flaring it up into open hostilities.

— Dana Taylor, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026
The Soviet Union took them from Japan in the final days of World War II, and the dispute has kept the countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending their hostilities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

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