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diesel

[dee-zuhl, -suhl] / ˈdi zəl, -səl /
NOUN
diesel engine
Synonyms


NOUN
locomotive
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




Example Sentences

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Lindsday Australia has raised fuel levies to pass on a more than 70% rise in diesel prices since February to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

"The advice... today is that 80 percent of diesel production is continuing, 80 percent of aviation fuel is ongoing," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

It is like putting diesel in a lawn mower.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

It can process up to 120,000 barrels of crude oil a day, manufacturing products such as gasoline and diesel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Ignatius instead fell backward, and the bus, exhaling diesel exhaust, rumbled past an inch or two from his desert boots.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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