as in to ash
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kiln
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The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days.—
Santina Contreras,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2025 -
Other ways to reuse the tree include: Burning the wood to ash your garden. Making firewood.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
23 Dec. 2024
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Mercury in Gemini is igniting your fourth house of home, family and emotional foundations, encouraging conversations around personal matters, home improvements or your living situation.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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Floyd’s death ignited widespread protests around the world, lasting for weeks in 2020.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
25 May 2025
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The team tailors lighting and imaging techniques to each piece, ensuring the best possible results without compromising the object’s integrity.—
Courtney Lane,
Kansas City Star,
27 May 2025
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His cast includes manatees who use flatulence to control their buoyancy and cave dwelling fungus gnats that create beautiful, illuminated fly-traps from the mucus lit by their bioluminescent butts.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2025
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The Orleans Parish district attorney torched the county's sheriff for failing to order a crime scene investigation after 10 inmates escaped from the New Orleans prison on Friday.—
Peter D'Abrosca , Nate Foy,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2025
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Both Karl-Anthony Towns (30.1 ppg, 12 rpg in three games vs. Indiana) and Jalen Brunson (22.3 ppg, 7.3 apg) torched the Pacers in the regular season.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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However, because the Romans cremated their dead for many years, archaeologists have not found many gladiator bodies.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Apr. 2025
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Revisiting a puzzling find Burials didn’t take place within settlements during the Roman period, leading the dead to be cremated or buried alongside major roads, the authors said in the study.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
19 May 2025
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Mary’s love of nature, kindled in the back yard of her childhood home, had inspired her to become a scientist.—
E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Kiln.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kiln. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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