ignite

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• The vast majority of wildfires in the United States are ignited by human sources — power lines, cigarette butts, machinery, or, in the case of one infamous recent fire, a gender reveal stunt.

• In California, the Bear Fire, part of the North Complex Fire, burned more than 100,000 acres in 24 hours after igniting.

• We know that even if California starts lighting prescribed fires at the rate we need to ignite them, our Septembers will be filled with smoke for the rest of our lives.

• Now unusually strong winds are threatening to knock down power lines and ignite more wildfires, prompting the state’s largest utility to plan power cuts for more than 500,000 people.

• Second, record-low interest rates ignited a historic boom in refinancing.

• This regrettable action will, of course, ignite a racial gang war, leaving a heap of bodies in its wake.

• The gold bugs and hard money types hated him because they believed the vast expansion in the money supply would ignite inflation.

• El Zomor said his attempts to re-ignite talks between the army and the Brotherhood showed signs of progress.

• Interactions on the beach ignite memories of her former lover.

• A great work of fiction involves a certain frisson that occurs when its various components cohere and then ignite.

• I tell you, from Lincolnshire to Sussex the country is like dry timber ready to ignite at a spark.