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- verb Present participle of
conflagrate .
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Examples
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The culture of impunity, conflagrating violence and conflicts, is a clear threat to humanity.
Criminalization of Politics and Impunity: Chief Human Rights Concerns in Nepal 2008
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Popularity is as a blaze of illumination, or alas, of conflagration, kindled round a man; showing what is in him; not putting the smallest item more into him; often abstracting much from him; conflagrating the poor man himself into ashes and caput mortuum!
Paras. 1-24 1909
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Popularity is as a blaze of illumination, or alas, of conflagration kindled round a man; _showing_ what is in him; not putting the smallest item more into him; often abstracting much from him; conflagrating the poor man himself into ashes and _caput mortuum_!
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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Civil war, conflagrating universally over France at this moment, might have led to one thing or to another thing: meanwhile, to quench conflagration, wheresoever one finds it, wheresoever one can; this, in all times, is the rule for man and General Officer.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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In the middle of 2010 the turmoil calmed before conflagrating again as Merkel pushed for investors to help cover the cost of future bailouts.
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In the middle of 2010 the turmoil calmed before conflagrating again as Merkel pushed for investors to help cover the cost of future bailouts.
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I will definitely be posting something on Macross Frontier when it concludes next week (I saw 24 earlier today; it was awesome, and I was most amused by Ranka's Ayanami Rei impersonation), probably a post on the perinnially confusing, confounding, and conflagrating Code Geass R2 (can I make sense of episodes 21-25?
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