gallon
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She finds discounts with Harris Teeter fuel points or uses the free Walmart+ subscription through her American Express Platinum card that offers 10 cents off a gallon at some pumps.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The average monthly spot price of jet fuel has risen 91% since February to around $4.50 a gallon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Gas, which costs $4.33 per gallon nationwide on average, is about 40 percent more expensive than it was a year ago.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Nobody buys a gallon of diesel for their kitchen, and everybody pays for it anyway,” said Rob Carpenter, founder and chief intelligence officer at Tea Technologies, which runs a trucking safety and risk platform.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
He took down a big one that would hold a gallon or more, from the roof.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
This is the moment the planet's second largest living creature opens its giant jaws and swallows thousands of gallons of water during feeding.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
In January, a collapsed sewer pipe outside Washington, D.C., spilled more than 240 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Energy assistance comes in the form of U.S. dollars, not gallons, so with the higher prices for heating oil, ‘those dollars are only going to go half as far as they did a year ago.’
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
Staging that key three minutes of the show’s meticulously choreographed, highly anticipated climax, is a technical feat involving more than 100 gallons of water and unwavering physical acumen on the part of the cast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Closer to the reactor buildings, a thousand water storage tanks holding more than 250,000 gallons of radioactive water crowded the grounds.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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