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Mark Grace is smoking Winstons on the field and ashing into a cup.—
Jason Newman,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025 -
Waltman hand-carves each of her patterns and uses slip and ash glaze to add contrasting tones.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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For every mention of the Chicago Bulls’ trek toward toughness, of their hopes to stiffen the chests in the building and ignite a defensive revamp, Okoro has been the footnote.—
Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Tkachuk has been the spark that has ignited Florida to three consecutive Cup Final runs with his emotional intelligence and clutch performance when the stakes rise.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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That whole environment re-lit something in me.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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The record was created with Shellback and Max Martin in between shows on the career-spanning Eras Tour, which lit a fire in the singer-songwriter that blazes across each of its 12 tracks.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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The two reminisce in their childhood bedroom over a joint and bond as siblings over their respective failures in life before torching the place.—
Andrew Bernard,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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The prosecution said the pair planned the larceny, stole a getaway vehicle that was later torched in Detroit and got materials that said DTE on them.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Their investigation leads them to Dayal (Soubin Shahir) and Simon (Nagarjuna), members of a crime syndicate using one of Rajasekar's inventions — a chair-like contraption with the ability to cremate bodies — for their own nefarious purposes.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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The Bureau of Land Management confirmed to USA TODAY that cremated human remains were found outside Searchlight, Nevada.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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And in death, their reputations for kindling outrage, whether publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad or stoking viral arguments on college campuses – made defending freedom of speech a national priority.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
27 Sep. 2025
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These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Kiln.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kiln. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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