conflagration
noun
con·fla·gra·tion
ˌkän-flə-ˈgrā-shən 
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The treaty is the latest attempt to resolve the ten-year conflagration.
the historic tavern burned to the ground in a horrible conflagration
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Ensuring a few words wouldn’t spark a huge conflagration that could be splashed across social media, Steph Curry qualified his thought.
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2025
The problem at North Fourth Street became such a public nuisance that the pile of lumber and debris left from earlier blazes caught fire yet again in August 2024, a conflagration that finally spurred city officials to take action to remedy the blight.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
The conflagration originated in the back-and-forth between Mr. Adams’s lawyers, Alex Spiro and William A. Burck, and the Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, exchanges which have not been previously reported.
—Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
The debris from these stellar conflagrations is carried far and wide across space, germinating new sites of star and planet formation.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2025
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2025
The problem at North Fourth Street became such a public nuisance that the pile of lumber and debris left from earlier blazes caught fire yet again in August 2024, a conflagration that finally spurred city officials to take action to remedy the blight.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
The conflagration originated in the back-and-forth between Mr. Adams’s lawyers, Alex Spiro and William A. Burck, and the Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, exchanges which have not been previously reported.
—Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
The debris from these stellar conflagrations is carried far and wide across space, germinating new sites of star and planet formation.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Conflagration.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conflagration. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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conflagration
noun
con·fla·gra·tion
ˌkän-flə-ˈgrā-shən
: a large disastrous fire
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