refining
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Phillips 66’s refining earnings are also expected to eclipse its past record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Shell and other oil majors are seeing "an unprecedented widening of the refining spread", said Kathleen Brooks, research director at trading group XTB.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Diesel prices in the U.S. and U.K. have hit record highs and refining margins are at unprecedented levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
I could see them toying with the idea of talking to us about it, see them refining how they’d do it, what exactly they’d say.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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