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The smaller trees, competing for resources and acting as kindling for future fires, will be removed.
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Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
For four years, Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric found little kindling.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
Other is the kindling that fuels extremism and illiberalism.
—Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
In Richard Roper’s capable hands, the search becomes so much more – a kindling of confidence, a step down new paths.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
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Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
For four years, Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric found little kindling.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
Other is the kindling that fuels extremism and illiberalism.
—Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
In Richard Roper’s capable hands, the search becomes so much more – a kindling of confidence, a step down new paths.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
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“Kindling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kindling. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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kindling
noun
kin·dling
ˈkin-(d)liŋ 
: material that burns easily and is used to start a fire
Medical Definition
kindling
noun
kind·ling
ˈkin-dliŋ
: the electrophysiological changes that occur in the brain as a result of repeated intermittent exposure to a subthreshold electrical or chemical stimulus (as one causing seizures) so that there develops a usually permanent decrease in the threshold of excitability
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