crude

—Brent crude fell 5% to $83.55 a barrel, while WTI crude dropped 6.1% to $79.48.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Transportation and warehousing also increased for a second straight month, largely on strength in natural gas and crude oil pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Oil-exporting countries have found increasingly creative — and costly — alternative routes for their crude.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Results were also dented by reduced international refining runs because of a 10 percent drop in crude oil inputs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Photographs of Bitter’s hands were strewn around as studies—she’d painted her own hands into the figure, painted crude stitches that grafted her wrists to its feathered arms.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

Gulf Coast that process sulfur-heavy sour crudes, such as those from Canada and Venezuela, have a byproduct as in demand as their main products gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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

She said Brent prices will eventually catch up with the Middle Eastern crudes changing hands at over $150 a barrel if Hormuz stays shut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

We should be able to ensure that we can access the optimum crudes for our economy.

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026

We can summarize the situation so: Coal-tar → 10 crudes → 300 intermediates → 900 dyes → 5000 brands.

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

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

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

Aker BioMarine’s financial wherewithal depends on another, cruder type of oil: Norway’s massive natural gas and petroleum exports.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

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

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023

“What is cruder than to deprive such an unfortunate, withered woman and her little child of support?” he writes.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Like his brother before him, Thambi had found the crudest words of any.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya