ration
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The Atlantic Council has urged nations to ration scarce oil supplies to better manage an extended Strait of Hormuz closure.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
Chevron also reconfigured its Asian refineries to make them yield more fuel as Asia faces a severe shortage and has been forced to ration oil products.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
To cope, he keeps the furnaces on but at lower temperatures and halts production for three to four days at a time to ration gas.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
On Tuesday, Germany’s Lufthansa said it would cancel some European routes and 20,000 short-haul flights scheduled until October in a bid to ration jet fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
“We all had to wait. It was interminable. The war was over but still we had to ration everything. The opera didn’t return for an entire season!”
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing ration
The Diary of Anne Frank
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