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burn in

verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to darken (areas on a photographic print) by exposing them to light while masking other regions

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In the hours after the shooting, an inebriated Ferguson wished aloud in a police interview room for the death penalty, demanded to be punched in the face and predicted that he would burn in hell, according to video prosecutors showed during trial.

Is there a specific challenge with crafting a slow burn in the streaming era?

It took three years to get the necessary permits from air quality regulators and other local authorities for a modest, 50-acre prescribed burn in Mendocino County early this year.

“You can speak your mind but not on my time” probably isn’t the sickest burn in Joel’s catalog.

Smoke emanates from a prescribed burn in Mendocino County.

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