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The boorish, puerile Farva — imagine an “Animal House” character its writers would have discarded as too crude — is the catalyst this time around by falling in love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

—In early trading, Brent crude rose 0.9% to $83.27 a barrel, while WTI futures are up 0.6% to $77.79 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Oil prices edged higher, with Brent crude up 1.3% to $83.55 a barrel, as investors awaited updates from Iran-Oman talks on managing Strait of Hormuz traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Meanwhile, the latest U.S. data showed domestic crude oil stocks rose by 2.5 million barrels last week, contrary to market expectations for a moderate withdrawal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Experimentation thus required a deeply problematic balancing act between Platonic idealism and a crude empiricism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Gulf Coast that process sulfur-heavy sour crudes, such as those from Canada and Venezuela, have a byproduct as in demand as their main products gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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

It is made from carbolic acid and the famous trinitrotoluene is made from toluene, both of which you will find in the list of the ten fundamental "crudes."

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

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

But as a patrol of environmentalists approaches the Chilean super trawler in an inflatable boat, the cruder realities of modern industrial fishing come into view.

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

“What is cruder than to deprive such an unfortunate, withered woman and her little child of support?” he writes.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

He wore red wraparound shades, and he had the crudest, most brutal face I’d ever seen— handsome, I guess, but wicked—with an oily black crew cut and cheeks that were scarred from many, many fights.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan