kindle ˈkin-dᵊl verb
1. catch fire
2. cause to start burning
3. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
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The word kindle has appeared in 35 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 22 in “At a Paris Market, Costs Rise, Even for the Humble Baguette” by Liz Alderman:
Bread prices play an important role in French history. After shortages of loaves helped kindle the French Revolution, the government fixed prices to ensure that bread remained affordable for everyone. Those regulations ended in 1986, but boulangeries will try to pass rising costs to products like brioche before touching the sacred baguette.
That has become harder amid soaring wheat prices and higher electricity bills for the bakers’ ovens. When the cost of a baguette rises, Ms. Noel said, “there’s no question that it impacts people.”
Daily Word Challenge
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