war
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With the Iran war threatening key energy infrastructure and shipping lanes, producers are increasingly looking beyond their borders to keep crude flowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The price of a gallon of diesel - which was $3.75 before the war started in February - hit a record high of $6.52 in September.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
That is 600 million higher than it had anticipated just a few months ago, as the US war against Iran drags on.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Economists tend to see Switzerland as less exposed to higher energy prices from the war in Iran, given its more diversified energy mix that includes Alpine hydroelectric dams and nuclear power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Jones said war was coming, and traveling to Southeast Asia would be dangerous.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The region’s wars have hit a lull in recent weeks, but they are far from over.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
Welcome to the quiet beginning of the robot wars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Among the subjects she had reported on were the wars in Chechnya.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The English civil wars of 1642-51 emerged from political and religious divisions between royalists who supported the crown and reform-minded parliamentarians who sought to check the king’s power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
On September 1, 1949, Stalin taught America a hard lesson about the cost of lagging behind in the spy wars.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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In his first term, he warred incessantly with public sector unions.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2025
Then, two titanic egos — Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis and railroad baron Henry Huntington — warred through their proxies in Congress, Huntington wanting the harbor in Santa Monica, and Otis in San Pedro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
U.S. oil prices hit their lowest this year overnight as concerns over Chinese demand warred with talk of possible OPEC+ output cuts.
From Reuters ● Nov. 29, 2022
They had warred in private over differences about how to spend the money in areas like transit and broadband, and how to pay for the spending.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
He warred against it, but his tongue was a transient orator who, in moments of madness or in the dazzling half-nelson of a father’s arm, assumed a life and career of its own.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Ukrainian and Russian officials visited the city together on Friday, delivering aid and evacuating those who wanted to leave in a rare show of cooperation between the warring sides.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
When “Digger” briefly strikes this resonant note, its warring aspects begin to coalesce, before Iñárritu strikes them with a shovel and breaks everything up again.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
At the behest of the army, the institute brought together 30 elders of warring tribes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Witkoff and Kushner have led US President Donald Trump's efforts to broker a peace deal, but a gulf remains between the two warring sides.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
This was too much; there were too many emotions warring within him at once.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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