exhaust
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One bill limits liability for rocket launchers that own at least 20,000 contiguous acres related to noise, exhaust and other disturbances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
But he still makes his fair share of on-site repairs for drivers who accidentally sheared off a side mirror or rooftop exhaust fan in their scramble to make it to an event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 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
This is what there was in the world, busy streets thick with the smell of car exhaust and fast-food hamburgers.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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Her construction project has begun and she hopes to move in by August -- before the $4,000 monthly rent she pays for a furnished apartment exhausts the housing allowance from her insurance.
From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026
When the star exhausts its fuel, this balance collapses.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 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 emotion of their reunions exhausts them so that they often nap together under a tree, or in Ivanito’s narrow bunk bed.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Some universities offer need-based or merit-based institutional aid, and Austin said some schools are even offering institutional loans for students who have exhausted their federal options.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Canyon coach Nate Harrison was exhausted and exhilarated afterward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
The wife of one sailor told MS NOW’s Priya Sidhar that the company is working 12-14 hour days and that her husband “said that he was exhausted working on the flight deck.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
"We found the exhausted after swallowing a lot of seawater," he told the news agency, adding "they were pale, especially the boys".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Oleg Penkovsky was exhausted, scared, and all alone in a way only a spy could understand.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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For us, Cuenca checks a lot of boxes, but the lack of an international airport makes travel long and exhausting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
But even if changes are still pouring in, City’s opponent on Sunday saw plenty of similarities to the exhausting style it faced in the Guardiola era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The story has elements similar to popular summer blockbusters, but they’re so finely remixed and retooled that they don’t bear such exhausting resemblance to their forebears.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
"On a hot day, it's even more exhausting."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
My students had been admitted because they could admirably paint or sculpt or videotape their bodies in exhausting detail, and wasn't that enough?
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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