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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 decline has been very small - over the past two days diesel has come down by 0.6p and petrol by 0.3p.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

At the weekend, Bowen said Australia has the equivalent of around 38 days’ use of gasoline, 31 days’ worth of diesel and 28 days’ worth of jet fuel available.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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

The Hotel-Dieu dining room is big and somber and full of people talking about U-boats off Gibraltar and the inequities of currency exchange and four-stroke marine diesel engines.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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