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A 2022 paper also identified higher levels of toxic metals associated with crude oil in the nail clippings of people living near the site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Oldman stars as the crude boss of a team of failed or disgraced MI5 agents who have been banished to a building called Slough House.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The Group of Seven major economies agreed to release 100 million barrels of crude oil and fuel from emergency stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

More than 70% of the crude oil which passed through the strait in August was transferred from these "shuttle tankers" onto other vessels in the Gulf of Oman, Kpler said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

It makes you think you’ve always felt like this, and there’s no place to go but down, where it slowly, ravenously digests your will, distilling it into the ebony crude of nightmares.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Marathon and Valero noted strong performance from their West Coast refineries, citing recent California refinery closures and increased availability of California crudes, in addition to the war.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The investment allowed them to take advantage of the light-heavy spread, as heavy crudes are typically cheaper because they are lower quality and require more processing.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding U.S.-Iran tensions, and “the market for non-sanctioned crudes is tight,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

Refineries in India are more used to refining heavy, sour crudes, which are the type of oil in Russia and in Venezuela, but not the light, sweet type in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

It is made from carbolic acid and the famous trinitrotoluene is made from toluene, both of which you will find in the list of the ten fundamental "crudes."

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson

Later sections where you rely on even cruder tech to spot enemies ratchet up the tension further, at the expense of making the gameplay much slower.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In addition to the Shahed-136, Iran also has stocks of earlier, cruder models of the Shahed that it can turn to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

The stage for his artistic blossoming was set in 1482, when he left the rich mercantile city of Florence for the cruder, more bumptious northern city of Milan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024

It’s a much cruder, but drastically cheaper, way of monitoring the disease over time versus trying to test as many people as possible.

From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2024

With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

Mr. Sokolov and co-writer Alex Litvak barely bother with scratching out the crudest imaginable dialogue, which is unfortunate because they fancy themselves the creators of a sociopolitical satire along the lines of “Get Out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

The production, directed by La Jolla Playhouse outgoing artistic director Christopher Ashley, makes musical comedy seem like the crudest of art forms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

“Dead Ringers” — a gender-swapped remake of the 1988 David Cronenberg film — opens by addressing our attraction to the idea of twins in its crudest form.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

The company's scientists took the crudest of the crude oil components -- the sludge left at the bottom after the distillation process -- and pushed it through one of the membranes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

She hated the Party, and said so in the crudest words, but she made no general criticism of it.

From "1984" by George Orwell