barrel
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In early European trading, Brent crude rose 2% to $97.89 a barrel, while WTI futures were up 2.1% to $95.78 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
If the strait opens soon, prices will come down—though not to the low $60s a barrel seen at the beginning of the year when an oversupply loomed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
West Texas Intermediate futures External link were rising 7% to $93.48 a barrel.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
The event features barrel racing, where horses run around a path with sharp turns marked by barrels.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
We hadn't much to move—the pot-bellied stove, cooking pans, dishes, knives and forks, a barrel of smoked salmon, a barrel of seal meat, and the six caribou skins we slept on.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Vocabulary lists containing barrel
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