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exhaust

[ig-zawst] / ɪgˈzɔst /




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"It feels like they're going to hope that we exhaust ourselves," she said.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

We continue to live among gasoline, plastic, detergent, coffee, shampoo, exhaust fumes, fried food and synthetic fragrances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The program’s retirement trust fund is projected to exhaust its reserves in roughly six years — coinciding with each newly elected senator’s term.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

As the rocket climbed above Earth carrying a Dragon spacecraft, sunlight illuminated its expanding exhaust plumes, creating an enormous glowing shape that resembled a jellyfish.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 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

For a reader he is like a guest who overwhelms and exhausts, but who is then invited back for the sheer enjoyment of his absorbing tales, striking insights and charm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

On a remote Cambridgeshire farm, where his nearest neighbour is half a mile away, Mathew Latta was making lunch when the peace was shattered by the sound of loud exhausts.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

When a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel, its core collapses and triggers a dramatic explosion known as a supernova.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

February saw a surge in both trading activity, which often accompanies comes as a price swing exhausts itself, and institutional repositioning.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

The rocket stood in the cold winter morning, making summer with every breath of its mighty exhausts.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

But the more recent phenomena associated with black lung and PMF—that the latter is showing up in younger men, and those with fewer years underground—is tracked to the improvement of mining technology and exhausted mines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Even though she was on her way to becoming a physician herself, and even though she was exhausted and stressed, and stress is a possible agitator for shingles, her doctors didn’t immediately find a diagnosis.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

She said she was left feeling stressed, exhausted and offended, it adds.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

I put the seed in my pocket and nodded, too exhausted to argue.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

"I would say, in the round, this has been a complex visit. It's been challenging. It's been exhausting," the aide said.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

But while the novel is imposing from sheer size alone, the shift in medium lends their elaborate, occasionally exhausting storytelling a curious new potency.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

We’ve experimented with retirement simulations of our own, but we struggle to get the projected probability of success below 90%, much less find a realistic path toward exhausting our assets over the next 30 years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

While it can be exhausting and Laveaux admits he wouldn’t do it year round, he looks forward to coming back every season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

It’s an old Katy Perry song that’s peppy in an exhausting way.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller


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