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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

The following year, he co-authored a book titled "Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean-Energy Economy," in which he detailed a vision for combating climate change by investing in clean energy and a renewable energy workforce.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2019

Back in 2007, Inslee co-authored a 416-page book on this topic called “Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2019

Igniting the two, he crossed and handed them to Stuart and Max.

From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax