lubricate

Drilling fluid is a liquid used to cool and lubricate equipment during drilling.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

“They only constrict your blood vessels to decrease the appearance of redness, but they won’t actually lubricate your eyes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

These days, of course, pesky things like WhatsApp rather lubricate the friction of distance of folk being in different places.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2024

"These initial results demonstrate the immense potential of AI for developing more accurate and cheaper methods for estimating emissions from agriculture. This may lubricate carbon markets and incentivize adoption of climate-smart practices."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

These pairs pop out of the text at us, and when they belong to the same phrase they can lubricate the parsing process, allowing the words to be joined up quickly.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

One key defense against this process: a network of de-watering wells, which pump out the water that lubricates the soil’s clay layers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

Butter also lubricates your mouth, which tends to compliment the dish's natural astringency.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024

The fluid lubricates faults, resulting in slow slips that produce small earthquakes.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024

Most of it is absorbed by our cells; the rest lubricates muscles and tissues and generates saliva.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 14, 2023

Whatever it is that lubricates joints I think must be in low supply now, because every moving part aches.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

This slippery coating is essential for keeping the colon lubricated and stool soft.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026

The process is being lubricated by the biggest jump in European military spending since the Cold War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

Armies of commentators, reporters and photographers were hauled off to the 49th state expecting a vintage Trump performance, of the sort that has lubricated their industry for an entire decade.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

“Water projects came to epitomize the pork barrel; they were the oil can that lubricated the nation’s legislative machinery.”

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024

He took out the vial of oil and lubricated the latch and hinges.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

"After lubricating the outer walls of the drain eventually we could get the hedgehog out."

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Jubail is home to one of the world's largest industrial cities, where steel, gasoline, petrochemicals, lubricating oil and chemical fertilisers are produced.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

The lubricating coating used in the study is based on lipid bilayers, structures commonly found in the membranes of living cells.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026

The lubricating proteins were abundant in the fish’s jaws and in the fins of zebra fish, gar, and sticklebacks, the scientists reported.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 25, 2024

We spent weeks at the huge Shell Haven Refinery with a special instructor who taught us all about fuel oil and diesel oil and gas oil and lubricating oil and kerosene and gasoline.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl