kindlings

plural of kindling

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Noun
  • Attendees can learn about fire behavior prediction and apply this knowledge to the community’s unique topography, fuels, weather and fire safe challenges, including how to best protect homes from wildfires.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
  • Reducing weight also reduces the pathways by which obesity fuels cancer, explains Bernard Fuemmeler, associate director of population science at the VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center and a co-author of the breast cancer study and the colorectal cancer study presented at ASCO.
    Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • One of the risks during the instabilities are runaway electrons, which accelerate to relativistic energies and can slam into the walls of the reaction chamber.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • Invest your energies there, rather than in trying to debate with your mother or inserting yourself into the conflict between your father and this man.
    R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Pressurized helium is routinely used in rockets to push propellants to engines and to help clean and dry tanks and propellant lines when needed.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Invading during inopportune weather would spell certain doom for Allied troops and a potentially fatal blow to their efforts against the Axis powers.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 29 May 2026
  • Flanagan has targeted Craig for her support in 2025 of the Laken Riley Act, which expanded federal immigration enforcement powers.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
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“Kindlings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindlings. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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