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pyric

American  
[pahy-rik, pir-ik] / ˈpaɪ rɪk, ˈpɪr ɪk /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resulting from burning.

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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