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exhaust

[ig-zawst] / ɪgˈzɔst /




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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

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

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

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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