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exhaust

[ig-zawst] / ɪgˈzɔst /




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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

The researchers say exposure can be reduced by choosing unscented products, improving ventilation with exhaust fans or open windows, and avoiding devices that generate ozone while scented cleaning products are being used.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Throw in a flat-plane crankshaft, low-inertia turbos and equal-length exhaust runners and you’ve got a hurricane on a dimmer switch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

This is a secondary combustion system that injects raw fuel directly into a jet engine's exhaust stream behind the turbine, which gives the jet a big short-term boost in thrust.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The San runs fast beneath my feet, white froth on top of its waves, and the air smells like hot truck exhaust and steaming rain.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

A white dwarf forms when a star exhausts the hydrogen fuel needed for nuclear fusion in its core but lacks the mass required to explode as a core-collapse supernova.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026

Her construction project has begun and she hopes to move in by August -- before the $4,000 monthly rent she pays for a furnished apartment exhausts the housing allowance from her insurance.

From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026

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

Somehow all this information exhausts me, and I watch the second video, which explains the actual procedures for vacuuming, with the detached interest of a cineast.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

As exhausted as Gibney may be with the subject, he can’t entirely rule out “Musk 2.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Samms is mentally exhausted by not knowing whether he will be able to afford the new rate every time his lease is up.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

“When I’m home and I’m exhausted, I’m like, ‘I can’t spend $30 for, like, a burrito right now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"I'm just exhausted really, it's a fight to get heard, to be listened to," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Ice-cold and exhausted, the boys slumped over Nanuq, their arms wrapped around him in a great big bear hug.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Yet supporting Angel City, she says, has been as exhausting as it has been exciting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The overacting is exhausting because it’s not only Iñárritu’s creative choice, but rather the methods employed by the play-within-a-movie’s director.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

For ordinary people, however, a visit to a government office is often seen as an exhausting process.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Another not-insignificant consideration: Selling a home is a time-consuming, exhausting, stressful and laborious process.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Keeping track of Good and Evil was exhausting, especially when Evil looked like such a respectable person.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan




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