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Recent Examples of singed
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
25 Dec. 2025
This sounded a little sentimental, given the charred cups and singed windows a few feet away.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
His fur was singed and bitten, his arm broken, and his mouth crawling with maggots.
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Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
Speaking of burnout, that was the ultimate destination for the generation that came before, singed by their naive belief that adopting a neo-Stakhanovite approach to work and careers would pay off.
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Dave Smith,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Thankfully, only the tag was singed, so OP put the toy in a cabinet on a the pitcher.
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Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
25 Dec. 2025
This sounded a little sentimental, given the charred cups and singed windows a few feet away.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
His fur was singed and bitten, his arm broken, and his mouth crawling with maggots.
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Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
Speaking of burnout, that was the ultimate destination for the generation that came before, singed by their naive belief that adopting a neo-Stakhanovite approach to work and careers would pay off.
—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for singed
Adjective
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Designed to function like an ice resurfacer, BurnBot lays down pre-burned paths that define the boundaries of burn areas.
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Yeager said none of the non-burned areas of the facility have been turned on again.
Verb
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That second blaze burned charred 23,500 acres in that community, Malibu and elsewhere, killing 12 people and destroying or damaging more than 7,500 homes and businesses.
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The scene was not secured for days after it had already been charred, raising the possibility that critical evidence was compromised or destroyed.
Adjective
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If possible, wait until the extreme temperatures cool to apply pesticides that can cause scorched leaves.
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Later the day of the arson, a young man with scorched hands faced an FBI agent and others investigating the crime.
Adjective
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Every guest will enjoy a prix fixe menu of steak, a seared romaine parmesan salad and bottomless fries.
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DiMaria says it can be grilled or pan-seared, then cut into strips or cubes for a main dish.
Adjective
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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.
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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.
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“Singed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singed. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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