exhaust
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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
Employees must first exhaust their administrative remedies at an agency that cannot decide their case.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
They are also not conventional air conditioners, which work by removing heat from a room via an exhaust hose or external unit.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
While it has been widely reported that the helicopters' exhaust scorches grass, Trump added Monday that the airflow is so powerful, the lawn actually "gets ripped out."
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
The truck rolled past, clogging the narrow alleyway with its oily exhaust.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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George Atef, a 38-year-old Egyptian civil servant in Kuwait, said: "What exhausts me most is not knowing when this situation will end -- the waiting itself has become draining."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 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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Once he had exhausted all means of appeal in February for his EU request for protection, he decided to try his luck outside the bloc -- by crossing the Channel from France to the UK.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Medicaid is there for people who have exhausted their own resources.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
“We have sort of exhausted our ability to communicate with most of these people,” Morrow told Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
A common refrain among them was that, while they all still believed in the revolution, after five years they were exhausted and needed to earn money for their families.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
They were all far too exhausted, and too depressed, to ask questions.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Finding the perfect position appeasing those on either side of an issue is exhausting work and prone to error.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Managing that contradiction was, by multiple accounts, exhausting inside the People’s Bank of China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Fora's Jonna Robertson, for her part, is counting on a seasonal redistribution, with trips to hotter countries taking place in spring or autumn, in order to avoid both overtourism and exhausting temperatures.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
"That becomes very exhausting because it's a very difficult place to navigate."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Sometimes I find talking much more exhausting than actual work.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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