Synonyms for coal
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1. coalnoun

   fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

   Synonyms:
   ember

2. ember, coalverb

   a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

   Synonyms:
   ember

3. char, coalverb

   burn to charcoal

   "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

   Synonyms:
   blacken, sear, scorch, char

4. coalverb

   supply with coal

   Synonyms:
   char

5. coalverb

   take in coal

   "The big ship coaled"

   Synonyms:
   char

Matched Categories

1. • Burn
   • Fossil Fuel
   • Supply
   • Take In
   • Vegetable Matter

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1. coalnoun

   Synonyms:
   anthracite, bituminous, charcoal, culm, scoria, slack, ember

   Associated words:
   carbon, carboniferous, gobbing, strata, carbonize, carbonization, briquette, coke, brat, brattice, brettice

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1. List of paraphrases for "coal":

   charcoal, al-fahm, carbon, smut, anthrax, coals, carbone

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1. Peabody CEO Glenn Kellow:

   2020 has been a year unlike any other, within the Peabody CEO Glenn Kellow, coal generation is down 24 % through September as Covid has accelerated what was previously projected to be a multiyear decline in coal demand.

2. Michelle Bloodworth:

   We are monitoring the situation currently but we do remain concerned that overly aggressive policies that lead to the premature retirement of dispatchable generation like the coal fleet will jeopardize the reliability and resilience of the electricity grid.

3. President Trump:

   We have a very big problem in North Korea and as I said, I really think that China is going to try very hard, and has already started — a lot of the coal boats have already been turned back — you saw that yesterday and today — they’ve been turned back, the vast amount of coal coming out of North Korea going to China, they’ve turned back the boats — that’s a big step and there are many other steps I know about so we ’ll see what happens, it may be effective, it may not be effective — if it’s not effective, we will be effective — I can promise you that.

4. Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska:

   We should start the coal phase-out right now. The Green Deal is a tool which could lead us through a smart energy transformation to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

5. Jesse Bragg:

   It feels like The United States saying the rest of the world,' We've got coal and coal technology ; come buy The United States from us,' they're not here to negotiate a treaty. They're here to sell fossil fuels.