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  1. book-burningnoun

    The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of book-burning in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of book-burning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of book-burning in a Sentence

  1. Rick Scott:

    Canceling and silencing people is the latest book burning. That’s what they’re doing. They’re canceling and silencing people on the internet, and it’s book burning.

  2. Jonathan Friedman:

    It is deeply disturbing to see a group of students engaged in this kind of conduct, this symbolic gesture aimed not just to reject or refute ideas but to obliterate the very paper on which they were written... It behooves the university to educate its students about why book burning is so inimical to open discourse and free expression.

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