crude

The "collapse in crude should have been rocket fuel for the battered growth trade", said SPI Asset Management's Stephen Innes.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Brent crude futures for January delivery fall 2.85% to $110.23 a barrel, while U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

To some observers, the synchronized drop in tech stocks and Treasury yields — compounded by rising crude oil prices — looked like an ominous macroeconomic signal.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Analysts at the investment bank said Brent crude could reach $140 a barrel next year if tensions worsen in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

After I cranked the wire down with pliers, the fins, though crude, appeared to be at least attached securely.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

“Brent-priced crudes are having a harder time competing in Asian markets,” said Aaron Kildow, senior market strategist at Sparta Commodities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

“We displaced international crudes with domestic grades into our refining system and sold the international barrels into tight overseas markets,” Brian Mandell, a Phillips 66 executive, told investors in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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

The ten primary products or crudes are then converted into secondary products or "intermediates" by processes like that for the conversion of benzene into aniline.

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

Later sections where you rely on even cruder tech to spot enemies ratchet up the tension further, at the expense of making the gameplay much slower.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Yet this desire to take over Greenland seems to stem from an impulse even cruder than one might suspect.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026

Others were far cruder, employing fake accounts that were easily spotted before they could even attract a following.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

The designs became cruder, the repertoire of themes reduced, the technical skill diminished.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

I think of Candor’s rhyming song, which calls us the crudest faction.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth