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exhaust

[ig-zawst] / ɪgˈzɔst /




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Contrails - also known as vapour trails - are made when the hot exhaust from aircraft engines meets the cold air at high altitude, creating ice crystals.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Arevalo is one of 10 street vendors testing whether they can ditch petrol generators to reduce noise, planet-warming emissions and health risks posed by exhaust fumes.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

As the din of clanking metal dims, the smell of grease and exhaust lingers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The boat was leaking fuel and continuing to emit exhaust from the motor as it sank.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

It wasn’t a perfect date—lots of exhaust in our cookies ’n’ cream—but the vuvv love customs.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

February saw a surge in both trading activity, which often accompanies comes as a price swing exhausts itself, and institutional repositioning.

From Barron's Feb. 26, 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

Judges then stunned the nation by ordering Sarkozy to swiftly start serving his sentence, dispensing with the usual practice of waiting until a white-collar convict exhausts the appeals process.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 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

As those orders are exhausted, new business is expected to slow.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Officials contend the discrepancy between the computer count and the paper tally is “a good deed that went punished” — the result of exhausted officials being handed an extra-credit project they couldn’t quite execute.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Some universities offer need-based or merit-based institutional aid, and Austin said some schools are even offering institutional loans for students who have exhausted their federal options.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

The wife of one sailor told MS NOW’s Priya Sidhar that the company is working 12-14 hour days and that her husband “said that he was exhausted working on the flight deck.”

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

So much had happened in one day that he was beginning to feel exhausted.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Travel, she says, “was exciting, exhausting, anxiety-producing, disorienting, stimulating, joyful and difficult to explain to others.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

For us, Cuenca checks a lot of boxes, but the lack of an international airport makes travel long and exhausting.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

From health experts, entrepreneurs and influencers, here are ways to pursue a healthy body, mind and soul without exhausting your overdraft.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The story has elements similar to popular summer blockbusters, but they’re so finely remixed and retooled that they don’t bear such exhausting resemblance to their forebears.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

It was an exhausting, emotionally taxing day, and the cases and clients had merged together in my mind on the long drive back to Atlanta.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson




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