diesel
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Benchmark U.S. futures closed 5.5% higher at $92.16 a barrel, suggesting that nationwide declines in gasoline and diesel prices would soon end.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
The average diesel price has dropped 15.5 cents last week, to $5.437 a gallon.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Prices of gasoline and diesel jumped 23% and 33%, respectively, from a year earlier in May.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Loud trucks kept passing and honking their horns, leaving a smell of burning diesel fuel in their wake.
From Slate • May 29, 2026
Everything on the bottom floor of the reactor buildings—including the diesel generators they so desperately needed to run the reactors—had been submerged in salt water.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Vocabulary lists containing diesel
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