grease

Big picture: Americans are spending enough money to grease the economy, especially wealthier people who’ve enjoyed ever-rising stock prices.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Sounds like the place is a grease fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

With a millisecond to spare, he’d summoned the winds and avoided becoming a floating patch of demigod grease on the surface of the Adriatic.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Immigration across countries greases the wheels of cross-border investment.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

Both are indoor stars: LaFontaine is a dynamic outside hitter with a “robotic arm,” as Pazanti put it, and Sparks is the setter that greases the wheels in the Oilers’ offense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

Another 19 billion liters could come from treating fats, oils, and greases with hydrogen.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 22, 2022

At times their frankness sends up the larger society’s conventions of politeness — the thin layer of fiction that greases our way through life.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

“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

If he hankered for meat, Joe simply greased up his .30-06, hopped into the pickup, and went looking for it.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

And it’s already impacting the broader economy, greasing the wheels of social mobility for some and leaving obstacles for those left out as the cost of living, housing and raising families surge.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2023

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

Mr. Fitzgibbon and his sons had finished greasing the tractor and gone on somewhere else.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien