exhaust
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The program’s retirement trust fund is projected to exhaust its reserves in roughly six years — coinciding with each newly elected senator’s term.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The illuminated exhaust plumes were visible across the eastern United States, giving observers a remarkable view of the rocket's journey into space.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
By forcing adversaries to burn through expensive interceptors, the incoming swarms can exhaust allied air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
This is a secondary combustion system that injects raw fuel directly into a jet engine's exhaust stream behind the turbine, which gives the jet a big short-term boost in thrust.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Out on the road, I can see a car is waiting, its exhaust rising like steam.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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On a remote Cambridgeshire farm, where his nearest neighbour is half a mile away, Mathew Latta was making lunch when the peace was shattered by the sound of loud exhausts.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
George Atef, a 38-year-old Egyptian civil servant in Kuwait, said: "What exhausts me most is not knowing when this situation will end -- the waiting itself has become draining."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 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
But for the audience, those sentiments more accurately reflect Ramsay’s film, a slow burn that exhausts its welcome and dies in a blaze after losing its grip on a meandering narrative.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
The emotion of their reunions exhausts them so that they often nap together under a tree, or in Ivanito’s narrow bunk bed.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Sophie said despite being "hungry and exhausted" she was denied a meal while her daughter was "in intensive care fighting for her life".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
“We were already exhausted from the downpour of the storm and trying to hold umbrellas, it was just a horrible day,” Menapace recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
“I was really exhausted and realized that without support, without outside help, it would be very difficult emotionally and psychologically to get through this fall and winter,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Here there was not even a common language and among exhausted, ill-fed people, quarrels erupted constantly.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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We’ve experimented with retirement simulations of our own, but we struggle to get the projected probability of success below 90%, much less find a realistic path toward exhausting our assets over the next 30 years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Any fooming process would quickly be self-liquidating, exhausting its supply of chips and power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
While it can be exhausting and Laveaux admits he wouldn’t do it year round, he looks forward to coming back every season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
It’s disarming and occasionally exhausting, but that’s the point: If such repetitive heaviness is difficult for the viewer, imagine how it is for the person experiencing it.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Like exhausting the least likely places first when looking for something lost.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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