pyric
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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It’s as though, having all but exterminated a plague, we decided we no longer needed to keep up the pyric hygiene that contained it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
The historian Stephen Pyne calls this the "pyric transition".
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2019
Yeah, this is California, the land of tectonic and pyric upheaval.
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2018
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