asphalt
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Rising fuel prices and higher oil and natural gas costs are making shipping and materials like plastic pipes and asphalt more expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
What the pair found was a desert highway that rolls up and down, like an asphalt serpent, with deadly blind peaks and treacherous hidden troughs.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
The fire on Jan. 22, believed to have been set by a homeless person, took out wooden framing below an asphalt bridge connecting access to a parking lot, making it unusable for safety reasons.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
SUVs idle in the gravel shoulders, with camera cables snaking out of their doors and across the asphalt.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
The metal rims of the wheels had sunk three inches into the melting asphalt, and the truck ticked and popped and smoked, still hot from its incineration.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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