as in combustible
capable of catching or being set on fire
avoid wearing loose flammable clothing when using the blowtorch
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Recent Examples of flammable
Other projects raised questions that even now feel flammable.
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Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
On April 7, 2019, Mr. Mejia arrived at his girlfriend’s apartment building on Bailey Avenue, splashed a flammable liquid on the floor of the vestibule and lit it on fire.
—Michael Wilson, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
As urban boosters and capitalists increasingly invested in industrialization, cities expanded and concentrated flammable commodities together in previously unprecedented ways.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
In Southern California, for example, much of the wildland fuel is chaparral, a type of shrubland with dense, rocky soil and highly flammable plants in a Mediterranean climate.
—John W. Daily, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
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Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
On April 7, 2019, Mr. Mejia arrived at his girlfriend’s apartment building on Bailey Avenue, splashed a flammable liquid on the floor of the vestibule and lit it on fire.
—Michael Wilson, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
As urban boosters and capitalists increasingly invested in industrialization, cities expanded and concentrated flammable commodities together in previously unprecedented ways.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
In Southern California, for example, much of the wildland fuel is chaparral, a type of shrubland with dense, rocky soil and highly flammable plants in a Mediterranean climate.
—John W. Daily, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flammable
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The study found a greater chance that drier, more combustible conditions will now overlap with the peak Santa Ana wind season in December and January.—
Andrew Freedman,
Axios,
28 Jan. 2025
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Prior to leaving office, Biden also advanced a separate tobacco regulation, one that would set maximum nicotine levels for combustible cigarettes and effectively ban all cigarettes currently available in the United States.—
Christian Datoc,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
24 Jan. 2025
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The mentor Steffen’s 6-foot-3 frame and increasingly explosive athleticism are nothing to scoff at, but his superpower isn’t necessarily physical.—
Braidon Nourse,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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The escalating tension of that final act is as shocking and violent and viciously cold as anything in Franco’s filmography, which has seldom shied away from stark depictions of human cruelty — whether intimate in scale, like After Lucia, or encompassing explosive societal conflict, like New Order.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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And all this against an inflammable backdrop of geopolitical crises including but not limited to the Israel-Hamas war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.—
John Leicester,
Quartz,
15 Apr. 2024
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Heat also stresses old electrical systems — insulation breaks down; lubricants in relays dry out — and a not-insignificant amount of the subway’s electrical wiring dates to the 1920s and 1930s, some of it cloth-covered, inflammable, and pervious to water.—
Curbed,
Curbed,
28 July 2023
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“Flammable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flammable. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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