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exhaust

[ig-zawst] / ɪgˈzɔst /




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"Either the burden of grief is going to be enough for us to give up, or that we're going to financially exhaust ourselves."

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The discovery challenges a long-standing understanding of white dwarfs, the dense cores left behind when certain stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and shed their outer layers.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

We continue to live among gasoline, plastic, detergent, coffee, shampoo, exhaust fumes, fried food and synthetic fragrances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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 bus exhaust freezes, trapping all the noise in a gritty cloud.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

When a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel, its core collapses and triggers a dramatic explosion known as a supernova.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 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

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

She looks like everything exhausts her, including me.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

If the program’s funds are exhausted, recipients could see their benefits cut by more than 20%.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Even though she was on her way to becoming a physician herself, and even though she was exhausted and stressed, and stress is a possible agitator for shingles, her doctors didn’t immediately find a diagnosis.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

“The knock in the night has always been my calling,” this kind listener explains as she admits the exhausted woman with the rambling story to tell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

He was exhausted, hungry and. frightened; and he desperately wanted Fa.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

But while the novel is imposing from sheer size alone, the shift in medium lends their elaborate, occasionally exhausting storytelling a curious new potency.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

How exhausting it has to be to litigate every little thing, to be so constantly aggrieved?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

His day had been exciting, exhausting, and satisfying.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary


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