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"Canada fuels American growth, supplying 99 percent of their natural gas imports, 85 percent of their electricity imports, 60 percent of their crude oil imports," Carney said Saturday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

In early European trading, Brent crude was down 0.3% to $93.50 a barrel, while WTI futures slipped 0.5% to $86.42 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Hey, the American public can be crude and cruel.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

That is extraordinary for a country widely recognised as an energy superpower and one of the world's leading exporters of crude oil.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

He still shot wide on the turn, but they didn’t jam into the bank and by the fifth curve he had found a way to use the crude paddle to steer the raft.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

Marathon and Valero noted strong performance from their West Coast refineries, citing recent California refinery closures and increased availability of California crudes, in addition to the war.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

“We displaced international crudes with domestic grades into our refining system and sold the international barrels into tight overseas markets,” Brian Mandell, a Phillips 66 executive, told investors in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The investment allowed them to take advantage of the light-heavy spread, as heavy crudes are typically cheaper because they are lower quality and require more processing.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

We should be able to ensure that we can access the optimum crudes for our economy.

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026

We can summarize the situation so: Coal-tar → 10 crudes → 300 intermediates → 900 dyes → 5000 brands.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson

In addition to the Shahed-136, Iran also has stocks of earlier, cruder models of the Shahed that it can turn to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

Yet this desire to take over Greenland seems to stem from an impulse even cruder than one might suspect.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026

Aker BioMarine’s financial wherewithal depends on another, cruder type of oil: Norway’s massive natural gas and petroleum exports.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

"That is not the modus operandi. It's slightly cruder than that, on the whole."

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023

A cruder hand had drawn the giant of House Umber.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Mr. Sokolov and co-writer Alex Litvak barely bother with scratching out the crudest imaginable dialogue, which is unfortunate because they fancy themselves the creators of a sociopolitical satire along the lines of “Get Out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

The production, directed by La Jolla Playhouse outgoing artistic director Christopher Ashley, makes musical comedy seem like the crudest of art forms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

The company's scientists took the crudest of the crude oil components -- the sludge left at the bottom after the distillation process -- and pushed it through one of the membranes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

“It’s very difficult to find reliable indicators for even the crudest differences between pleasant and unpleasant music, let alone for the subtle differences that make a nice musical piece become a hit,” he says.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023

In its crudest form, this exploitation of 'phasing’ could be demonstrated by setting off two pendulum metronomes at exactly the same time and precisely the same speed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall