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• Trade-deadline guys do not need to set the world on fire.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• The game expected to move Xbox units off the shelves didn’t set the world on fire.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
• The Saints set the world on fire last week with their complete game against the Buccaneers.
  — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 14 Nov. 2020
• As a result, the Ridgeline's tow ratings don't set the world on fire.
  — Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2022
• All of that said, this was another alarming day for the Ravens defense against an offense that hardly set the world on fire in Weeks 1 and 2.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2022
• And in the games between the Bengals and Ravens so far this season, quarterback Joe Burrow hasn’t exactly set the world on fire.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
• One of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate is that global warming has set the world on fire.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 31 July 2023
• Hunter Henry hasn’t set the world on fire, but he’s been solid this entire season and appears to be hitting his stride at the right time for his fantasy managers.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
• Cleveland, despite all his obvious physical prowess, is still just a rookie, and first-year linemen rarely set the world on fire.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Venus and Serena are still playing, but those young girls soon to set the world on fire are now middle-aged women—one with a racket-wielding daughter of her own—heading into the sporting sunset.
  — Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2021
• None have set the world on fire so far, not least because people already have a number of apps at their disposal to handle shopping, communicating and payments.
  — Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022
• Speaking of political choices, in the years since the city began to get serious about excluding others, the San Francisco model has not exactly set the world on fire.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024