gas
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Leaves evolved as bigger, more efficient platforms for capturing the gas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The developer of a proposed data centre in Cardiff has said it is also seeking permission to build a gas power plant to get it up and running.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
A gas station owner last decade sued to block a competing gas station across the street from adding several new pumps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
It also said the gas turbine plan was a "worst-case scenario", and the project - planned for the site of an existing park and ride near Llanrumney - would bring significant benefits.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
A man in a baseball cap added, “The fire department is just as helpless as we are. The gas line broke, too, and the gas is feeding the flames.”
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
"Since the incident we have learnt lessons, and as part of this, we have improved our oversight of the monitoring of medical gases across the maternity unit at Basildon Hospital."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
But fabrication and assembly plant workers can face exposure to solvents, acids, toxic metals and chemical gases, according to the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The city’s claims are based on the global phenomenon of climate change and the atmospheric accumulation of greenhouse gases from every carbon source around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Both conventional and botanical cleaning products generated complex multiphase exposure scenarios involving reactive gases and secondary organic aerosol.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
“You’re kidding, right? You don’t think the huge amounts of greenhouse gases we’re releasing into the air by burning fossil fuels has anything to do with the fact that the earth keeps getting hotter?”
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The industrial gasses company said Monday that it wants to grow net earnings per share by a compound annual growth rate of 10% over the period, from the 6.1 euros it reported for 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The flights will be used to conduct various studies and to sample atmospheric gasses and measure land and water surfaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
Unlike visible light, radio waves from hot gasses are not blocked that easily by cosmic dust.
From Space Scoop ● Mar. 27, 2025
The pyrolysis plants - often in rural backwaters - are akin to homemade pressure cookers and produce dangerous gasses and chemicals.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
Then the enthusiasm of the Grail had burned the bad gasses of the air into a short-lived beauty.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Fitness is next: He looked a little gassed against Zverev, and admitted as much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“I’m not sure why Taylor picked such a rundown place to film, but I’m gassed about it,” said Hogg, 24.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
While showing few outward signs of struggling with the foot blisters which troubled him in the quarter-finals, Djokovic regularly looked gassed against Sinner before finding further reserves to win in four hours and nine minutes.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
With Ohtani clearly gassed, Roberts called in Anthony Banda, who allowed the two inherited runners to score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
He went to the Great War, he was gassed, he’s big, he has a job, he makes the world laugh.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
"From the first round, I saw his gassing out. He started fast. I knew he was going to gas out. I knew when my chance came I needed to push. That is what I did."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The rest stop duration may require a bit more time than gassing up, and that is an added safety factor on a road trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Some travelers say they can’t afford not to travel, however, so they’re putting all options on the table — from booking rail tickets to gassing up their cars.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2025
“Everyone is gassing each other up about how fabulous they look,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
It's like he felt tougher whenever he started blabbing about it, gassing his own head up, turning the story into a much bigger deal than it really was.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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