The word immolate has appeared in 19 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 16 in the movie review "Freedom Is Tricky at This Festival" by Andy Webster:

• An oasis of creativity blooms in "Spark," a documentary account of the preparations for, and realization of, the 2012 iteration of Burning Man, the annual weeklong burst of invention and eccentricity in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada around Labor Day. Sixty thousand people assemble for this carnival, bringing their own colorful accommodations and often creating giant art installations, which are either disassembled or - like the huge wooden totem that gives Burning Man its name - destroyed at the gathering's close.
• ...Three individuals are given particular focus: Jon La Grace, a Burning Man organizer who years ago left his wife and job after an epiphany at the desert revel and came out of the closet; Katy Boynton, a welder raising funds for and building "Heartfullness," a heart-shaped metal contraption 12 feet high; and Otto Von Danger, a disillusioned former Marine, who leads a team in constructing "Burn Wall Street," a mock version of the financial district that he intends to immolate in protest of the housing crisis.