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exhaust

[ig-zawst] / ɪgˈzɔst /




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"Either the burden of grief is going to be enough for us to give up, or that we're going to financially exhaust ourselves."

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 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

Rocket exhaust can blast dust and loose material away from the ground, potentially affecting nearby equipment and structures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Though the war has also depleted the Iranian missile force, Tehran has adjusted by using munitions that split into a number of pieces, forcing defenders to exhaust more interceptors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

We left the blankets behind because we didn’t want to exhaust ourselves with too much to carry.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

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 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

But for the audience, those sentiments more accurately reflect Ramsay’s film, a slow burn that exhausts its welcome and dies in a blaze after losing its grip on a meandering narrative.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 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

Either explanation would offer valuable insight into the destruction of rocky worlds and the complex processes that can continue long after a star has exhausted its fuel.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

A work this vast cannot be exhausted by one interpretation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

Everyone is so exhausted after that you spring for takeout.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Don’t tell me you two are in cahoots! How cheeky. Does that mean we can go to bed now? I am quite exhausted; what a dull evening it has been.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

How exhausting it has to be to litigate every little thing, to be so constantly aggrieved?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

“Doing a weekly series was the most physically exhausting and horrendous time of my life,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

It was all right while we loaded up, but hauling, with nothing ahead, nothing to look at, nothing for the eye to touch, as it were, it was at first disagreeable and then exhausting.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin


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