kiln

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kiln
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • In an oxygen-rich environment, the fire will ignite more readily, spread more rapidly and burn at higher temperatures.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2025
  • The cover, in which Carpenter is seen kneeling on the ground, one hand extended toward a figure in a suit who’s grabbing her hair, ignited debates online about whether the photo signified female empowerment or empowered the male gaze.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • However, the set up casts light far beyond the highway, extending onto beaches even 12 miles away, including Little St. Simons and Sapelo.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 26 July 2025
  • Earlier this week, McIntyre lit into Scott with some NSFW criticisms of the rapper, a sign that WWE’s relationship with Scott was on the ropes.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Verb
  • While most of the fire has burned across eastern Utah, more than 1,800 acres of Colorado land have been torched.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 19 July 2025
  • But then a dangerous shift in the weather occurred, turning the seemingly low-risk fire into a fast-moving blaze that jumped containment lines and torched dozens of buildings in the park over the weekend, including a historic lodge.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 17 July 2025
Verb
  • Elysium Space also contracted to have cremated human remains and DNA of clients placed aboard the lunar lander.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 27 June 2025
  • All of the bodies, including those cremated, were recovered.
    Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2025
  • President Donald Trump is weighing an executive order that would attempt to stabilize the business and law of college sports but might instead kindle new legal challenges.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 July 2025
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“Kiln.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kiln. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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