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incendiaries
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a device created to cause explosion and fire in order to completely destroy something
- The police found an incendiary hidden in the abandoned building.
- The museum had to be evacuated after an incendiary was discovered.
- They used an incendiary to start a fire in the warehouse.
- Security forces defused the incendiary before it could detonate.
- The suspect was arrested for planting an incendiary in the shopping mall.
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