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• n  material for starting a fire

• El Nio provides the tinder, but humans provide the match.
• The ancient city of 170,000 Palestinians is a tinder box of religious passions.
• She arrived at the bonfire with the tinder stacked high, and somehow it fell to her to be the match.

• kindling
• touchwood
• spunk
• punk

News & Articles

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• Colorado fires force thousands from homes
  Tinder-dry conditions and gusty winds are fueling wildfires in Colorado, prompting mandatory evacuations as at least 12,000 acres burn up. FULL STORY
  June 12, 2013 - CNN
• The Future of Dating is Mobile
  Ok Cupid and Tinder collaborate and compete to figure out the social graph and chemistry. But for now, dating by location still means, well, hookups.
  June 11, 2013 - Forbes
• Firefighters monitor lightning strikes in tinder-dry hills
  A low pressure system spinning through the Bay Area from Southern California early Monday triggered more than 6,000 lightning strikes that had firefighters casting a wary eye on the region’s tinder-dry hills. The storm front rolled into Northern California around midnight and had triggered at least 60 small grassfires throughout the North Bay by daylight. Twelve small fires were reported in ...
  June 10, 2013 - KTVU

Quotes

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• Bronwyn Pike in The Canberra Times
  There will be several thousand people affected by (the closures), but that's a small price to pay compared to the risk that people potentially are at,Ms Pike said. "This is an extraordinary set of circumstances. We've got a tinder dry...
• John Brumby in Reuters India
  It (Friday) is just as bad a day as you can imagine, and on top of that the state is just tinder dry,Victorian state Premier John Brumby told reporters.
• Alan Greenspan in RTT News
  Both the monetary base and the M2 indicator rose less than 5 percent in the subsequent year (2004), scarcely tinder for a massive credit expansion,Greenspan wrote.