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
Keep them in a cool, dry area and make sure they aren't exposed to heat as some can be flammable.
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Lauren David, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024
What is being done about flammable material under bridges?
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
Key Background Lithium-ion batteries contain flammable materials and can overheat, leading to fire or explosion.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Without suppression in the wildlands, residents’ last line of defense is to harden against wildfires by ensuring that flammable materials don’t collect on their houses and that there are no holes where embers can enter the home.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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Lauren David, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024
What is being done about flammable material under bridges?
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
Key Background Lithium-ion batteries contain flammable materials and can overheat, leading to fire or explosion.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Without suppression in the wildlands, residents’ last line of defense is to harden against wildfires by ensuring that flammable materials don’t collect on their houses and that there are no holes where embers can enter the home.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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Of course, rules to reduce nicotine in cigarettes would have no impact on nicotine in e-cigarettes, which have largely replaced combustible tobacco as one of the main ways young people now consume nicotine.Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
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The response to Los Angeles’s worst fire crisis in history has been complicated by Santa Ana winds and dry, combustible terrain.Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
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Keep an eye on the explosive Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Cesar Almeida.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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That defense showed up in Week 18, holding the explosive Bengals to 19 points in another loss, but the Ravens are much-more balanced and have a bigger array of weapons, Derrick Henry chief among them.Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 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 21 Jan. 2025.
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