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Igniting the Eagles’ fourth-quarter run was sophomore Devin Mitchell, who scored six of his 14 points in the quarter.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025

Igniting intense fighting with seemingly unprepared government forces in southern Helmand by the middle of the month, the fundamentalist Islamist group then took the northern Burka district at the mountains' foothills.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2021

Igniting the mixture initiates a vigorous chemical reaction that rapidly generates large amounts of gaseous products.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Igniting May 31 on mountainous terrain, the fire grew quickly.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2018

Igniting a fire according to the Brahma rites, the ascetic, agreeably to those rites that go by the name of Aindragneya, began himself to cook that meat into sacrificial Charu.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan