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incinerated

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verb

past tense of incinerate

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Recent Examples of incinerated
Adjective
Grace, her white lace dress blackened with blood, is smoking a cigarette outside of an incinerated mansion that belongs to her in-laws, the Le Domas, who are all dead. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026 Know More Initially founded in 2012 with a $5 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Nautilus incinerated cash, sparing no expense in its pursuit of bringing resplendent literary science to the reading public. Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Verb
And, that the equivalent of a truckload of clothing is being incinerated or dumped in a landfill every second. Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026 Photograph by Serhiy Morgunov The drone’s explosion incinerated the doors of Nataliia’s apartment. Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026 Experts also say about 85 percent of all textiles wind up in landfills or are incinerated every year. Catherine Salfino, Footwear News, 23 Apr. 2026 Children have been incinerated. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026 Solar recycling innovation Global plastic production exceeds 400 million tonnes annually, yet only about 18 percent is recycled, leaving the majority to be incinerated, landfilled, or released into natural ecosystems. Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026 In a Sierra Nevada canyon all but incinerated in the 2021 KNP Complex fire, a new forest of California’s beloved giant sequoias is now growing. Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026 Ninety-four percent of Rhode Island's sludge is incinerated, with the material going to either Woonsocket or a smaller facility in Cranston. Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 3 Mar. 2026 Some can be incinerated, but that releases chemicals and smoke into the atmosphere. Devika Rao, TheWeek, 3 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incinerated
Adjective
  • Designed to function like an ice resurfacer, BurnBot lays down pre-burned paths that define the boundaries of burn areas.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Yeager said none of the non-burned areas of the facility have been turned on again.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Fire crews in South Florida are continuing their work to contain and extinguish wildfires that ignited in Broward and Miami-Dade counties over the weekend that continue to grow in size.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 11 May 2026
  • Drone attacks target gulf Arab nations The fragile ceasefire was again tested Sunday when a drone ignited a small fire on a ship off Qatar, while the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait reported drones entering their airspace.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
Adjective
  • Create a paste with baking soda and water; spread over the scorched area(s).
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Pictures from the scene show the scorched roof as firefighters put out hot spots once the flames died down.
    Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Trump nominates Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA, a surprising comeback after the former Navy SEAL was fired last May for defending the agency’s existence amid calls to dismantle it.
    Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Trooper Brett Cook also fired one round at Williams, Prescott wrote.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
Adjective
  • The Orion capsule, sitting propped up at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, is a charred testament to the challenge of that return trip.
    Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • On the ground were the charred remains of the bus and tanker truck, with twisted metal scattered across the highway.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 May 2026
Adjective
  • With plenty of black cherry, caramel, and singed vanilla, this is immediately appealing as soon as it’s poured.
    Brian Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Lu says his brother performed bold chemistry experiments that sometimes ended with singed eyebrows or small explosions.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • Bake in center of oven until fruit is cooked through and pastry is crisp and golden, about 40 minutes.
    Judy Bart Kancigor, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • In morning light, guests stroll through the gardens to the hotel’s carriage house restaurant for an ample, complimentary, cooked-to-order, full-service breakfast.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • In between there’s the elevated-casual Mistral for al fresco Mediterranean favorites like rack of lamb and seared scallops; the Evrima Room for white-table-cloth dining with wine pairings; and Talaat Nam for Thai-fusion and sushi options.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The chicken schnitzel is a nod to Fredericksburg’s German heritage, while the pan-seared redfish honors the Gulf Coast.
    Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2026

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