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gallon

[gal-uhn] / ˈgæl ən /


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“At $5.77 a gallon, the operating-cost math swings decisively to the EV, about $125 a month for a typical driver, and buyers acted on that price signal within weeks,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

The analysts said gas prices may not necessarily head toward $5 per gallon..

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

As of Wednesday, the spot price of jet fuel was $3.65 a gallon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Who needs umbrellas when you’ve got a tanning bed, a chin-up bar, beef-tallow stockpiles, and a gallon of only-sometimes-poisonous raw milk?

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

And while Mama mended Papa’s shirt, he drove in our Carcachita to the nearest gas station to fill the gallon bottle with drinking water and to get more kerosene for the stove.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez

Its firefighting fleet also includes Dash 8 water-bombing planes, which can drop more than 2,600 gallons of water or fire retardant.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Their individual payloads of more than 1,000 gallons of water are then dumped onto the flames below.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

But that’s the reality for much of the underground network of pipes that deliver more than 400 million gallons of water daily to customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

On a per-mile basis, Big Boy 4014 uses around 250 gallons of water and 15 gallons of fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Though the heart weighs less than a can of soup, a healthy heart pumps two thousand gallons of blood each day.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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