exhaust
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The discovery challenges a long-standing understanding of white dwarfs, the dense cores left behind when certain stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and shed their outer layers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Lizzie Davey recalls standing on Oxford Street in the early 1970s and being struck by the exhaust fumes.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
The program’s retirement trust fund is projected to exhaust its reserves in roughly six years — coinciding with each newly elected senator’s term.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The illuminated exhaust plumes were visible across the eastern United States, giving observers a remarkable view of the rocket's journey into space.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
This time a great net burst from the bike’s exhaust, but the Death Eaters were ready for it.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it typically collapses and explodes in a supernova, leaving behind a smaller black hole.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
Judges then stunned the nation by ordering Sarkozy to swiftly start serving his sentence, dispensing with the usual practice of waiting until a white-collar convict exhausts the appeals process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
When I’m gone, they tuck her in, and at 2 a.m., when she pops up like a jack-in-the-box, giggling and whining, they sit with her until she exhausts herself and falls back to sleep.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
The flaming exhausts on my hoverboard turn ninety degrees—I’m shot forward like a bullet from a gun.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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If the program’s funds are exhausted, recipients could see their benefits cut by more than 20%.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Even though she was on her way to becoming a physician herself, and even though she was exhausted and stressed, and stress is a possible agitator for shingles, her doctors didn’t immediately find a diagnosis.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
She said she was left feeling stressed, exhausted and offended, it adds.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
“O how I hate her!” wrote an exhausted Kate.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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We’ve experimented with retirement simulations of our own, but we struggle to get the projected probability of success below 90%, much less find a realistic path toward exhausting our assets over the next 30 years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
"Despite exhausting every option available to us, we have been unable to reach a solution that allows us to play outwith a Saturday afternoon."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
It’s disarming and occasionally exhausting, but that’s the point: If such repetitive heaviness is difficult for the viewer, imagine how it is for the person experiencing it.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
It must be exhausting for him and his team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Sometimes I find talking much more exhausting than actual work.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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