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A sustained shortage can raise costs across the economy, as higher diesel prices can feed into freight rates, food prices, construction costs and consumer fuel bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The "do not feed" warning is not new.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
We have created compost piles, where beetle larvae often feed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Women in this country are rip-roaring mad about the price hikes that they’re absorbing. They’re trying to manage household finances and budgeting. They’re trying to feed their kids healthy food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
He wanted to hold the skunk kit, maybe even feed and care for the skunk kit.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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The river feeds both Lake Powell and Lake Mead, two reservoirs created by massive dams built to distribute water year-round and generate electricity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
He told the conference: "We discovered what we think is a black hole merging with a massive companion star, shredding it into a disk that feeds the black hole. It's a rare and awe-inspiring phenomenon."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
I have seen genuinely funny and ingenious A.I.-produced shorts on my feeds, many of them likely helmed with a fraction of the compute and app deployment needed at Fairground.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026
The Fed targets a separate inflation gauge, due later this month, that Wednesday’s report feeds into and that has been running hotter than the CPI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Look—‘Male feeds female and young, and leads enemies away from den at risk of his life.’”
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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"Deer in Bushy and Richmond Parks are wild animals and should never be fed, approached or touched."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Sailors have reported being fed “rotten” food or barely being fed at all, and desperate family members have been begging the Navy for relief.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Dillon Davis and Nichols Neff were fed up with “corporate slop,” the bowl-centric meals that are a staple of sad office lunches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Notably, neither scavengers nor flies that fed on the supposedly poisoned carcasses have perished -- creatures that typically succumb after consuming poisoned animals.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
I made out distant activity—the vast wings being folded and, perhaps, chicks being fed.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Richards said: "They don't need to be fed. A lot of people are thinking: 'It's bone dry out there, everything is brown', but the deer don't need supplementary feeding here at Richmond Park."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Animals have probably been feeding on nature's original bioplastic for hundreds of millions of years - we're only discovering it now."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
They need Betts to keep feeding his “hope meter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Paz told 404 Media that company management had assured him they weren’t feeding information to agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a falsehood he passed on to city governments in his sales pitch.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
He was told he was in luck, as the organization had a donor who specifically wanted money to go to feeding the poor in Haiti.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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