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The phrase "a fire starter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person or thing that ignites or initiates a fire, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "He was known as a fire starter in the community, always bringing people together for new projects and ideas."
Alternatives: "igniter" or "catalyst."
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"If I had a fire starter, I could have been cooking hot dogs when they found me.
The channel asserts that Shane and Kim spent three weeks in the jungle with nothing but a machete, a fire starter and a camera crew instructed to offer no aid.
While winds often start from the coast, Santa Anas come from the desert, typically coming in with hot weather and often acting as a fire starter for the dry foothills around Los Angeles (though this year the temperature was in the cool 60s).
The space heater did nothing, less than nothing, and Jimmy's brother could have earned his merit badge as a fire starter that winter because all he did was scavenge the skeletal forest for fallen branches, rotten stumps, and fence posts, anything that would burn, managing to keep at least a continuous smolder going day and night.
It can serve as a veil when you're at a cafe terrace and wish to avoid attention, as a fan when you're relaxing in the park on a hot day, as a pillow when you consequently cop a snooze, as a cushion for transporting pottery or glassware, as a fire starter for the hearth, as a floor covering when painting or sanding, as a liner for your cockatoo's cage.
At Novo Fogo, the dried sugarcane waste becomes fuel for the boiler, and the heads and tails of the distillate are used as fuel for tractors, as a fire starter and a cleaning agent.
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But that ineffable thing that happens to some new bands when one release becomes a fire-starter from which there's no turning back — it didn't happen.
Radcliffe's character is the titular "Swiss Army man" because Hank finds many uses for his corpse, including turning his mouth into a cannon and his gas into a fire-starter.
Highly flammable, the gum was also used as a fire-starter, or bound in flax to act as a torch.
This mushroom is a fire-starter mushroom and allowed our ancestors to carry fire from one location to another.
Perhaps it is fitting that he is leaving now, fewer than 48 hours after LeBron James, the man on which Bayless built his reputation as a fire-starter, unambiguously solidified his reputation as everything Bayless believed he was not.
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