grease
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Ask one of those AI agents that isn’t plotting to take down civilization and boil us all in a giant tub of bacon grease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Ralph's parents grease bottle teats to avoid damaging his mouth and turn his baby-grows inside out to avoid friction from the seams.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
PCE is a synthetic, colorless liquid that is especially effective at dissolving grease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Contrary to what you learned in civics class, the grease that keeps the wheels of American democracy turning isn’t voters, legislation, or donor cash; it’s staffers.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her dress was smeared with grease stains from Leo’s tool belt.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Immigration across countries greases the wheels of cross-border investment.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Another 19 billion liters could come from treating fats, oils, and greases with hydrogen.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 22, 2022
He’s working to preserve the Latino culture of rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods even while he secretly greases the wheels for outside developers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2022
Inflation, they like to say, greases the economy’s gears.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
“Now we go back to the Carousel room,” muttered Mr. Nancy, “and old One-Eye buys us all dinner, greases some palms, kisses some babies, and no one says the G-word any more.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Held at the 1971 crab derby in Crisfield, Md., it drew less attention than sailboat races, greased pig contests and the crowning of Miss Crustacean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A US department of justice investigation into F1's rejection of Andretti further greased the wheels, and the entry was finally confirmed in March last year.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
Wonder what palms Sam Altman greased for Trevor Noah to suggest AI can make a new Rihanna album happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025
As you finish breading each piece of chicken, place them in the lightly greased baking dish.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024
I licked my fingers and touched them to the greased frying pan heating up on the stove.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Alice spends her days cleaning Lady Jemima’s stinky shoes, sponging her underwear and greasing her long blonde hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Those were the invisible hands greasing the wheels of mass torts, hands that propelled injured people through a maze they knew nothing about.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
With Washington greasing the wheels, a coalition of lenders put $30 billion in uninsured deposits into the California-based bank as a show of support.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
“There is no way he’s gotten away with these incidents without more significant legal repercussions unless someone in law enforcement is in the background greasing the slides for him,” Mr. Yanny said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
One night when Pa was greasing the traps he watched Black Susan come in, and he said: “There was once a man who had two cats, a big cat and a little cat.”
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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