lubricant
Example Sentences
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In electric vehicles, lubricants can begin to foam, which poses serious risks.
From Science Daily
The carry trade was the lubricant keeping global asset prices inflated.
From MarketWatch
In late September, Germany’s Lufthansa signed a preliminary deal for a new oil that is billed as safer than existing lubricants, according to a spokesman.
That makes cooperation and cross-party compromise, an essential lubricant to the way Washington is supposed to work, all the more difficult to achieve.
From Los Angeles Times
One division that has been earmarked for sale is its lubricants business Castrol.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.