exhaust
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Kpler estimates that current deliveries of around a million barrels a day—which mostly go to China—could exhaust the store of Iranian oil on the water by mid-October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“These trucks don’t have as much rattle, fumes, exhaust, things of that nature.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Contrails - also known as vapour trails - are made when the hot exhaust from aircraft engines meets the cold air at high altitude, creating ice crystals.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Arevalo is one of 10 street vendors testing whether they can ditch petrol generators to reduce noise, planet-warming emissions and health risks posed by exhaust fumes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
The hot and sticky air stunk of car exhaust.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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For a reader he is like a guest who overwhelms and exhausts, but who is then invited back for the sheer enjoyment of his absorbing tales, striking insights and charm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Core-collapse supernovae occur when a massive star exhausts the fuel needed to support its core.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
February saw a surge in both trading activity, which often accompanies comes as a price swing exhausts itself, and institutional repositioning.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
But for the audience, those sentiments more accurately reflect Ramsay’s film, a slow burn that exhausts its welcome and dies in a blaze after losing its grip on a meandering narrative.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
The rocket stood in the cold winter morning, making summer with every breath of its mighty exhausts.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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Just like some people prefer aloof cats to Labrador retrievers, some people get exhausted by my extroversion and geeky enthusiasm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“You just kind of get annoyed and exhausted, because you think it’s an opportunity and it really isn’t,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
"I wiped my computer and changed all my passwords and was exhausted emotionally and mentally drained," they said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Still, their emotionally ruinous tug-of-war goes on for so many rounds that the movie limps toward the end credits exhausted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Mal’s face was getting tighter and more exhausted, and Christopher bristled.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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But it may be more exhausting than thrilling to learn in the closing, apocalypse-ratcheting minutes that Na has more of his story planned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The findings indicate that rapidly exhausting neutral hydrogen cannot by itself explain why star formation has declined so strongly.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
The exhausting combination of heavy demands and a shrinking fleet is producing longer deployments—and wearing out crews and capital assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Another source of strain: In peacetime, the ports were used for rest and recuperation by sailors seeking a break from an aircraft carrier’s crammed quarters and exhausting routines.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Through the hours there had grown between them a long, exhausting dialogue.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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