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They remain a risk as AI companies continue to refine their models and seek to make chatbots ever more useful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Moving it through a pipeline and into a tanker requires treatment that would add $15 a barrel to its cost, he estimates, not counting the specialized equipment needed to refine it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

According to Asymmetric, the agents were able to refine their techniques in a matter of days, a process that typically takes traditional hackers months or even years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Diesel is harder to refine than gasoline and, because it is used by the haulage industry and in agriculture, it is very difficult to reduce demand.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Hi, Angela. Hey, I found that quotation, or rather, the librarian found it. You know: May God thy gold refine."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

The creative team then reviews and refines multiple AI-generated versions of a scene before deciding which expressions and line readings best serve the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Dangote refines both Nigerian and imported oil, so it is exposed to world market fluctuations.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

China mines about 70% and refines 90% of the world’s rare earths, which are used in electronics, cars, medical imaging, missiles, fighter jets and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

Edwin Chen, whose 6-year-old business Surge AI refines AI models, is the wealthiest of the new class of AI billionaires, worth about $18 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026

A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself, erects cities like those out there, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

It was that Texas spent all offseason dedicated to building the perfect football machine around the perfect football prospect—a roster so refined they wouldn’t be in this kind of do-or-die situation to begin with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

“If this hurricane ends up causing refinery flooding, it would exacerbate an already tight market for refined products, further pushing up prices at the pump,” Molchanov told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Global oil supplies have been restricted since the conflict in the Middle East effectively halted the usual flow of oil and refined products through the Strait of Hormuz for months.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Abubakar has floated a plan for a "targeted" subsidy, described as "capped and budgeted production support tied to fuel refined in Nigeria" to help bring down prices at the pump.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was used in heavy industry to render other compounds like refined gasoline or polyvinyl chloride for plastic pipe production.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

"If oil flows from the Middle East are disrupted once more, or if there are more attacks on refineries or more refineries shut down, refining margins could move higher," Brooks forecast.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

British oil major Shell expects to report that its refining margin hit a record high in the third quarter, as attacks on shipping in the Middle East restrict global fuel supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Warsh appears to be adjusting the same way, by refining his approach rather than abandoning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But the multihyphenate did talk about refining the material in his set, his film work and his appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

In fact, however, for the next five years nothing happened, largely because MacKaye occupied himself with refining and expanding his vision until he and it were only tangentially connected to the real world.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson