pyrokinesis
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Stephen King’s 1980 novel about Charlie McGee, a girl with pyrokinesis — the ability to start fires with her mind — has proved fertile to the cinematic imagination.
From Washington Post • May 5, 2022
Legion, has within him multiple personalities of various sexes and widely variant temperaments, and each of those personalities possess a superpower: pyrokinesis, telekinesis, telepathy, etc.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2016
King dubs this inflammatory forte "pyrokinesis," a combination of the Greek words meaning fire and movement.
From Time Magazine Archive
The drug has changed both parents' chromosomal structure; it is this mutation, not convincingly explained by King, that has produced Charlie's pyrokinesis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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