exhaust
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In response, an Ofcom spokesperson said it had made the decision a "matter of days ago" following "months of work to exhaust all possible legal routes".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The boat was leaking fuel and continuing to emit exhaust from the motor as it sank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Employees must first exhaust their administrative remedies at an agency that cannot decide their case.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Researchers found that methane released in spacecraft exhaust may spread across the moon surprisingly quickly, potentially contaminating regions that could preserve ancient chemical clues about how life first emerged on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Me skipping across the concrete as I got out of the Puss Moth, through crisp October air smelling of leaf smoke and engine exhaust, thinking, France, France!
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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Core-collapse supernovae occur when a massive star exhausts the fuel needed to support its core.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 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
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
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
But on most days, especially the warm ones, life exhausts him; the worsening traffic and graffiti and company politics, everyone grousing about bonuses, benefits, overtime.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
“We’re exhausted and we want to go home,” Singh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
These dense stellar remnants are the leftover cores of Sun like stars that have exhausted their fuel and collapsed to only about 1% of their original size.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
His nap had been cut short and he was deeply, inexplicably exhausted.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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You asked me earlier if it was exhausting being me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The former captain has seen it all in a record 320 matches, 199 of them in charge over nine exhausting yet era-defining years.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
"It's been exhausting, crazy," Roa says about the countless hours they've worked both to find survivors and to recover bodies and return them to their families.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Challenges like adjusting to a new language or learning unfamiliar customs and eating different foods can prove exhausting and demoralizing.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Saving the Academy, and possibly history as we knew it, was exhausting.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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