exhaust
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The discovery challenges a long-standing understanding of white dwarfs, the dense cores left behind when certain stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and shed their outer layers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Lizzie Davey recalls standing on Oxford Street in the early 1970s and being struck by the exhaust fumes.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
The program’s retirement trust fund is projected to exhaust its reserves in roughly six years — coinciding with each newly elected senator’s term.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
But the history of computing suggests another likely outcome: that people and companies will eventually exhaust the obvious productive uses for the technology, after which additional dollars spent on AI will yield fewer gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
I have only the haziest recollection of waving at my mother and sister in a rising cloud of diesel exhaust and mosquitoes as they began their slow, permanent exodus from the Congo.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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For a reader he is like a guest who overwhelms and exhausts, but who is then invited back for the sheer enjoyment of his absorbing tales, striking insights and charm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Her construction project has begun and she hopes to move in by August -- before the $4,000 monthly rent she pays for a furnished apartment exhausts the housing allowance from her insurance.
From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026
When the star exhausts its fuel, this balance collapses.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2025
When I’m gone, they tuck her in, and at 2 a.m., when she pops up like a jack-in-the-box, giggling and whining, they sit with her until she exhausts herself and falls back to sleep.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
Somehow all this information exhausts me, and I watch the second video, which explains the actual procedures for vacuuming, with the detached interest of a cineast.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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If the program’s funds are exhausted, recipients could see their benefits cut by more than 20%.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Even though she was on her way to becoming a physician herself, and even though she was exhausted and stressed, and stress is a possible agitator for shingles, her doctors didn’t immediately find a diagnosis.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
He said: "He was distraught. He didn't know how he was going to manage it. He was absolutely exhausted after the first experience."
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
After all that work, I’m exhausted, but then it’s time to go to the well to collect water.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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We’ve experimented with retirement simulations of our own, but we struggle to get the projected probability of success below 90%, much less find a realistic path toward exhausting our assets over the next 30 years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
It must be exhausting for him and his team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
But I still think the soup party is one of the finest ways to gather people without spending a fortune or exhausting yourself in the process.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Situation: By that time, Snell is at 99 pitches, two shy of his season high, after the exhausting battles with Vaughn and Bauers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
But it really is getting exhausting getting to know all of his girlfriends, bonding with them, and losing their friendship pretty quickly after Dylan cuts ties with them.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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