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as in hostilities
a state of armed violent struggle between states, nations, or groups
what began as a skirmish over disputed territory erupted into a conflagration that swept the continent
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Recent Examples of conflagration
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conflagration
Noun
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Gigantic yacht scorched by inferno outside Miami strip club.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
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The lines takes on a fresh resonance in the wake of January’s infernos.—
Stephen Humphries,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Security guarantees for Ukraine that are directly tied to the cessation of hostilities can advance all three of these objectives.—
Samuel Charap,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Dec. 2024
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But Israel's military plans for a major offensive in Gaza may reshape the course of the conflict, depending on the outcome of talks and possible further hostilities.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The fires were personal for Scott — his fiancée Zooey Deschanel’s childhood home in the Palisades burned.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain the country's worst-ever wildfires, which have killed 28 people, forced at least 37,800 to flee their homes and destroyed thousands of structures and vehicles.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Mar. 2025
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The governing Liberals had appeared poised for a historic election defeat this year until Trump declared a trade war and challenged Canada’s sovereignty.—
Rob Gillies,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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But war and instability raged across swathes of the nation, especially in rural areas.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Conflagration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conflagration. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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