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Adjective
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Rooftops tell their own stories, some adorned with statues of gods and warriors and others with sunbaked locals sipping café con leche.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 Apr. 2025 -
Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
11 Jan. 2025
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The winds will die down, and rain will eventually return to Southern California, but this one-two punch of high wind and parched landscapes will recur and intensify in the future.—
Kylie Mohr,
WIRED,
21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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In Oklahoma, evacuations were ordered as more than 130 fires were reported across the state on Friday night, fueled by strong winds amid bone-dry conditions.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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Fast-spreading fires started popping up in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle Friday afternoon, fueled by strong winds amid bone-dry conditions.—
Eric Zerkel,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The Table Rock Fire in Pickens County, northwest South Carolina, ignited Friday and has grown to more than 1,300 acres, the commission said in a Sunday night update.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2025
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The fire ignited last week but grew rapidly over the weekend, fueled by low humidity and dry vegetation, officials said.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The return to fighting has inflamed the debate in Israel over the fate of those held captive.—
Sam Mednick,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2025
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The firing of five probationary employees with the hurricane hunters in late February enflamed those concerns.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Baked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baked. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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