barrel
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Benchmark Brent crude contracts rose around 0.2% to trade below $93 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Oil prices have eased to around $90 a barrel in recent weeks on hopes for diplomatic talks aimed at ending the US-Iran war.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
Front-month Brent is down 0.8% at $92.05 a barrel, while WTI falls 0.75% to $85.88 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
In its worst-case scenario, where oil prices soar far beyond $100 a barrel, the bank warned that UK inflation risked hitting 6.2 percent in the third quarter of next year from 3.5 percent currently.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
She pried the top off an empty barrel and began to climb in.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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The Barbados-based firm is the second-largest private oil company in Venezuela and will operate 100-year concessions for 17 oil fields with proven reserves of approximately 65 billion barrels.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
“The barrels may be moving, but the cost, complexity and risk of moving them have fundamentally changed.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
Stocks across the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development fell by 47 million barrels in October, including a 41 million-barrel decline in industry inventories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
But “simply counting barrels no longer tells the full story,” Babin told MarketWatch, and “consistent flows don’t necessarily mean free flows.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
His shop was a flurry of good smells—jars, barrels, small mountains of spicy scent.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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The eye of the storm barreled over the peninsular fishing village of Las Barrancas, which was largely unreachable after a swollen river caused a highway bridge to collapse.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Barely a year since Snead had bet on a title window, the Rams had barreled right through it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Eastern time Sunday as a winter storm barreled across the Midwest.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
On one run in the third quarter, Hernando barreled to the ground after a 10-yard gain — writhing in pain , forcing an injury timeout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025
Henry was squatting elbow to elbow with a couple of oil hands at a new drilling site when a Diamond T company truck barreled into the clearing.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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Police are investigating a dramatic crash Tuesday where an SUV drove onto the sidewalk and barrelled into a vendor in downtown Los Angeles’ flower district, injuring six people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
The American had the crowd on his side but Zverev's serve was unrelenting and he barrelled into a 5-1 lead in the third set.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
The fierce winds and storm surge that barrelled through here have decimated nearly everything, leaving roads unusable and a trail of destruction that has them increasingly desperate and isolated with no electricity or running water.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
Will Smith barrelled up a splitter Gausman left just high enough to trade places with Edman on an RBI double to left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
A dozen centaurs barrelled through the ranks, yelling and waving their clubs, followed by a horde of two-headed men banging on trash-can lids.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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The truck was filmed barreling along a narrow highway cutting through the Utah desert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
That sentiment was particularly pronounced in tech, where companies are barreling ahead with a gargantuan artificial-intelligence build-out despite concerns about the costs — and the occasional rogue AI agent.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
The first died less than 10 minutes after departing the boat ramp: One moment, barreling along at full chat; the next, suddenly quiet, sloshing to a halt in the middle of the foggy channel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“It’s clear from experience with Waymo that these autonomous vehicles can’t deal with unanticipated circumstances, so we are certainly cautioning about the dangers of 26,000 pounds barreling down the highways at 65 miles per hour.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Someone barreling through the throngs bumped her hard to the right, which caused someone else to yell at her to watch where she was going.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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That score lit a fire in the Springboks, with Kolbe kicking a penalty and Damian de Allende barrelling over after another imposing maul as South Africa showed far more ruthlessness compared to a week ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
And so, on we go, barrelling toward the next general election, which must take place by 2029 but will likely be sooner.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
It’s not enough to come barrelling into a conversation with a long-winded explanation of your personal dogma; you must also confidently push the value of those ideas, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
It slammed into Florida as a category 4 hurricane on Thursday before barrelling across the states of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee, leaving flooding, power loss and death in its wake.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
The barking dog he’d heard before got louder, and suddenly a white blur came barrelling through the snow.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
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