as in sacrifice
something offered to a god the blood-drenched immolations that the ancient Aztecs annually offered by the thousands

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Recent Examples of immolation Schlesinger’s joke about the doomed, obsolete 13-letter Hollywoodland sign hints at the self-hatred that now pervades the Anglosphere and suggests that the immolation starts from the inside. Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025 In 2023, drought and unusually high temperatures led to the immolation of 37 million acres of Canadian land. Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025 Ten people were murdered in the New York City subway system last year — including the recent, random and gruesome immolation of a homeless New Jersey woman asleep on a Brooklyn train — up from five murders in 2023. Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025 Jihadists carry out a suicide bombing, a ritual beheading, an immolation, a murder in a Western city, or some other such barbarism, and newspapers, magazines, and blogs demand or suggest an Islamic enlightenment. John M. Owen Iv, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2015 See All Example Sentences for immolation
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sacrifice
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  • For Verlander, his latest quality start was possible due in part to a sacrifice from Dominic Smith, who sacrificed his body for an out.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • At which point Tyler re-enters the room and is given up by the terrified crowd (and, more importantly, anointed by Joan) as one of three people — including Bracken and one of the show’s dancers — who must make the film’s titular sacrifice to save the world from an imminent catastrophe.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Immolation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immolation. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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