exhaust
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The program’s retirement trust fund is projected to exhaust its reserves in roughly six years — coinciding with each newly elected senator’s term.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
As the rocket climbed above Earth carrying a Dragon spacecraft, sunlight illuminated its expanding exhaust plumes, creating an enormous glowing shape that resembled a jellyfish.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Races begin with a bone-shaking roar, as the world's fastest-accelerating cars leave the starting line, flames bursting out of their exhaust pipes.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Though the war has also depleted the Iranian missile force, Tehran has adjusted by using munitions that split into a number of pieces, forcing defenders to exhaust more interceptors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
As the bus shuddered to a stop at the terminal building, Ann searched through the blue haze of diesel exhaust for her husband among the knot of people meeting friends and relations.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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A Greek Orthodox Christian and a protégé of tech billionaire Peter Thiel, Kratsios argued that when AI exhausts human knowledge, humanity will look beyond reason for ultimate answers about man’s place in the universe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
On a remote Cambridgeshire farm, where his nearest neighbour is half a mile away, Mathew Latta was making lunch when the peace was shattered by the sound of loud exhausts.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Her construction project has begun and she hopes to move in by August -- before the $4,000 monthly rent she pays for a furnished apartment exhausts the housing allowance from her insurance.
From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026
When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it typically collapses and explodes in a supernova, leaving behind a smaller black hole.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
The flaming exhausts on my hoverboard turn ninety degrees—I’m shot forward like a bullet from a gun.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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But the more recent phenomena associated with black lung and PMF—that the latter is showing up in younger men, and those with fewer years underground—is tracked to the improvement of mining technology and exhausted mines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Even though she was on her way to becoming a physician herself, and even though she was exhausted and stressed, and stress is a possible agitator for shingles, her doctors didn’t immediately find a diagnosis.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Everyone is so exhausted after that you spring for takeout.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
I put the seed in my pocket and nodded, too exhausted to argue.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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We’ve experimented with retirement simulations of our own, but we struggle to get the projected probability of success below 90%, much less find a realistic path toward exhausting our assets over the next 30 years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
How exhausting it has to be to litigate every little thing, to be so constantly aggrieved?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
But I still think the soup party is one of the finest ways to gather people without spending a fortune or exhausting yourself in the process.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Doing a weekly series was the most physically exhausting and horrendous time of my life,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
It got kind of exhausting to tread water or balance on tiptoes while the rest of them planted their feet on the bottom.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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