exhaust
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By forcing adversaries to burn through expensive interceptors, the incoming swarms can exhaust allied air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The researchers say exposure can be reduced by choosing unscented products, improving ventilation with exhaust fans or open windows, and avoiding devices that generate ozone while scented cleaning products are being used.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Environmental and public health advocates have consistently opposed new smog check waivers, noting they increase exhaust emissions such as nitrogen dioxide that are damaging to human health.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Kpler estimates that current deliveries of around a million barrels a day—which mostly go to China—could exhaust the store of Iranian oil on the water by mid-October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The smell of grilling onions and car exhaust and heat on asphalt!
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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For a reader he is like a guest who overwhelms and exhausts, but who is then invited back for the sheer enjoyment of his absorbing tales, striking insights and charm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
February saw a surge in both trading activity, which often accompanies comes as a price swing exhausts itself, and institutional repositioning.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
A white dwarf forms when a star exhausts the hydrogen fuel needed for nuclear fusion in its core but lacks the mass required to explode as a core-collapse supernova.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
When I’m gone, they tuck her in, and at 2 a.m., when she pops up like a jack-in-the-box, giggling and whining, they sit with her until she exhausts herself and falls back to sleep.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
She looks like everything exhausts her, including me.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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“When I’m home and I’m exhausted, I’m like, ‘I can’t spend $30 for, like, a burrito right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Social media, however, is flooded with memes of exhausted parents calmly negotiating with a child having a supermarket meltdown, something Ockwell-Smith finds deeply frustrating.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
As he spoke, mothers in the back rows swayed from side to side, hugging exhausted toddlers who had missed nap time.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
"Ever felt exhausted after a vivid dream?" asks Professor Ko Matsui of Tohoku University.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
By the time we’re finished, I’m exhausted, sweaty, covered in dust and ready for a shower.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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The overacting is exhausting because it’s not only Iñárritu’s creative choice, but rather the methods employed by the play-within-a-movie’s director.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
For ordinary people, however, a visit to a government office is often seen as an exhausting process.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Another not-insignificant consideration: Selling a home is a time-consuming, exhausting, stressful and laborious process.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
But it may be more exhausting than thrilling to learn in the closing, apocalypse-ratcheting minutes that Na has more of his story planned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s an old Katy Perry song that’s peppy in an exhausting way.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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