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Which commodity is often called "crude"?

crude

[krood] / krud /




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It has been offering its crude to the UAE at a discount, Mills said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

The U.S. imposed a 40-year ban on exports of crude in 1975 in the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo when the country relied heavily on foreign crude for its refineries.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

By most estimates, the pipeline was the conduit for about 3 million to 4 million barrels a day of crude before it shut down last week.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

Excluding crude energy products, raw material prices were up 1.1% from July and 17.2% compared with a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

The action opened in Watertown, which was painted upon old linens; General Washington stomped out from the wings, his jacket ill-fitting and crude.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Marathon and Valero noted strong performance from their West Coast refineries, citing recent California refinery closures and increased availability of California crudes, in addition to the war.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

The investment allowed them to take advantage of the light-heavy spread, as heavy crudes are typically cheaper because they are lower quality and require more processing.

From MarketWatch Apr. 29, 2026

Refineries in India are more used to refining heavy, sour crudes, which are the type of oil in Russia and in Venezuela, but not the light, sweet type in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 2026

We invested in a number of low-capital, high-return projects that have allowed us to make more jet fuel, to be more flexible in the crudes that we process, and to make higher-octane gasoline.

From Barron's Jan. 10, 2026

It is made from carbolic acid and the famous trinitrotoluene is made from toluene, both of which you will find in the list of the ten fundamental "crudes."

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson

In addition to the Shahed-136, Iran also has stocks of earlier, cruder models of the Shahed that it can turn to.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 2026

As for the satire, this faintly cruder version of right now doesn’t have much bite.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

It’s a much cruder, but drastically cheaper, way of monitoring the disease over time versus trying to test as many people as possible.

From Slate Jan. 19, 2024

"That is not the modus operandi. It's slightly cruder than that, on the whole."

From BBC Aug. 7, 2023

If anything, the jeers and shouts were cruder here.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Mr. Sokolov and co-writer Alex Litvak barely bother with scratching out the crudest imaginable dialogue, which is unfortunate because they fancy themselves the creators of a sociopolitical satire along the lines of “Get Out.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

The production, directed by La Jolla Playhouse outgoing artistic director Christopher Ashley, makes musical comedy seem like the crudest of art forms.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 2025

The company's scientists took the crudest of the crude oil components -- the sludge left at the bottom after the distillation process -- and pushed it through one of the membranes.

From Science Daily Oct. 16, 2023

“It’s very difficult to find reliable indicators for even the crudest differences between pleasant and unpleasant music, let alone for the subtle differences that make a nice musical piece become a hit,” he says.

From Scientific American Jun. 30, 2023

When April opened the door he said, “Just as I thought, it’s springtime. Melanie! the crudest month is here.”

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder




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