exhaust
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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
Employees must first exhaust their administrative remedies at an agency that cannot decide their case.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
They are also not conventional air conditioners, which work by removing heat from a room via an exhaust hose or external unit.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
In England, the exhaust hoses of portable air conditioners protruding from windows are an increasingly common sight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
They had made excellent progress during the day, far more than he had expected, and he saw no reason to exhaust themselves by forcing a march during the night.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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George Atef, a 38-year-old Egyptian civil servant in Kuwait, said: "What exhausts me most is not knowing when this situation will end -- the waiting itself has become draining."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
When a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel, its core collapses and triggers a dramatic explosion known as a supernova.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
But for the audience, those sentiments more accurately reflect Ramsay’s film, a slow burn that exhausts its welcome and dies in a blaze after losing its grip on a meandering narrative.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 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
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Judith, a Puerto Rican girl from a poor but devoted family, consoles her exhausted teacher one day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"I'm honestly exhausted," 32-year-old finance worker Bruno Gonzalez del Yerro told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
But false reports about exhausted runners after the first women’s 800-meter race helped justify the exclusion of this women’s race until 1960.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
She investigated the data to assess how prevalent biphasic sleep was among shift workers, what health outcomes were associated with it, and whether a split sleep was better or worse than one exhausted block.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The poor workmen look exhausted, and I’ve heard that some of them have come down with rheumatism.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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Fora's Jonna Robertson, for her part, is counting on a seasonal redistribution, with trips to hotter countries taking place in spring or autumn, in order to avoid both overtourism and exhausting temperatures.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Inside the NHS trust's central hub, call handler Claire Havelock describes the previous heatwave as "exhausting", with some staff unable to take breaks because of the relentless demand.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The debate about AI and jobs has become exhausting and largely unproductive, oscillating between “AI will take all jobs” and “AI will create more jobs than it destroys.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
What specific moments have been exhausting for you?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
It was fun entertaining six-year-olds all day, but exhausting.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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