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barrel

[bar-uhl] / ˈbær əl /


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Front-month Brent crude-oil futures fall 3.9% to $99.47 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Energy Information Administration recently forecast that the price of international benchmark Brent crude will average $89 a barrel at the end of this year and $79 in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

West Texas Intermediate crude traded at around $67 a barrel before the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark crude, nearly doubled to just shy of $113 a barrel on April 7 from about $67 a barrel on Feb. 27, the day before the war began.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

The musket ball streaked out of the barrel like a comet, trailing flames and smoke.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis




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