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By that time, the mountains around L.A. were like a giant pile of kindling.—Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025 Then Sam throws the rest of his kindling onto his fire in a last-ditch attempt just as, as Jeffrey says, the wind blows Teeny’s fire away from her rope and blows Sam’s fire upward toward his rope.—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024 In the dry seasons, the brush withered into kindling waiting to ignite.—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025 The red flag warnings that have blanketed most of Southern California, and helped turn parts of it into kindling, have left the desert alone so far for the most part.—Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kindling
: the electrophysiological changes that occur in the brain as a result of repeated intermittent exposure to a subthreshold electrical or chemical stimulus (as one causing seizures) so that there develops a usually permanent decrease in the threshold of excitability
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