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- noun Plural form of
burnoff .
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Examples
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Another major issue on the Bakken is the natural gas burnoffs.
Energy 101: Hydraulic Fracturing - Vladimir’s blog - RedState 2010
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HOLMES: Which is -- and also environmental concerns meant that they weren't doing precautionary burnoffs.
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Having the smoke from log burnoffs down the hill decide to waft into offices was bad enough - the wind changed while everyone was in a seminar.
What doesn't kill you makes you smoky StyleyGeek 2006
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Mind you, given how much smoke you could get from the scheduled burnoffs, let alone the uncontrolled one - not that it is burn off season.
Freakiness StyleyGeek 2006
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Still, for viewers, the result is that most of these new shows coming in the next few weeks are serious efforts, not just burnoffs.
Kansas.com: -- Front 2009
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I grow angry as the same scientists promote vast broad-acre burnoffs, turning their backs on inconvenient papers that identify fire-sensitive flora that are ipso facto evidence that such fires could not have been possible; either before the Pleistocene or following human habitation.
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However, a Department of Sustainability and Environment spokeswoman told Star on Thursday that no plans for prescribed roadside burnoffs had been made.
Star News Group 2009
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My reaction dates from a visit to Mexico where the best sunsets I’d ever seen were caused by natural gas burnoffs near Poza Rica.
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