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fuel

[fyoo-uhl] / ˈfju əl /




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In response, local authorities started dispensing fuel straight from road tankers which keep changing their location to minimise the chances of being hit.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

“Having more things in a system of record, having more things accessible, is the fuel that powers the innovation,” said Joe Inzerillo, Salesforce’s president of enterprise and AI technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

The currency recovered and has held, and billions of dollars have since moved through official channels into food, fuel and medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Network Rail is suing two rail companies for more than £5m after a fuel spill caused by a train derailment threatened an "environmental disaster" at a designated site for protection.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

The poison tide had killed off the coastal vegetation, making it the perfect fuel for a wildfire.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

It successfully converted those samples into useful aromatic compounds that could potentially become building blocks for fuels, plastics, and other materials.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

"Canada fuels American growth, supplying 99 percent of their natural gas imports, 85 percent of their electricity imports, 60 percent of their crude oil imports," Carney said Saturday.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

How Elon Musk leaned in to fossil fuels.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Roads can also facilitate the spread of flammable invasive grasses and other fire fuels.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

The nitrogen for the fields would no longer be made with the sun’s energy but with fossil fuels.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Surging memory prices and borrowing costs have fueled fears that those and other companies will be unable to keep plowing more money into supplies including Nvidia chips.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

In Argentina, the contests have fueled numerous memes that have even been seized on by top-flight football clubs.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

The rumors were further fueled when one person commented that the musician’s signature hand tattoos were not visible in the video.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

That’s not to mention the massive uptick in investment in surveillance apparatus, a move often fueled by artificial intelligence.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

On the contrary, he just fueled my desire to succeed even more.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Iran had already been grappling with sky-high inflation before the war, which fuelled an anti-government protest movement that peaked in January.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

The videos appear to adopt Gen Z language and formats, but fail to address concerns that fuelled the protests, she adds.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

President Paul Biya returned to Cameroon on Thursday after a 73-day absence that fuelled speculation about the 93-year-old's health and who is really running the country.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

The threat that rising temperatures fuelled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a US modelling study published Tuesday.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

These forfeited food surpluses fuelled politics, wars, art and philosophy.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Other countries have fallen victim to debt spirals, where high levels of debt lead investors to demand higher interest rates, in turn fueling more borrowing until eventually a country defaults.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Economists don’t expect rates to fall soon, with geopolitical conflict as well as spending on the artificial-intelligence build-out fueling inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Atlassian, Twilio, JFrog, and Cloudflare surge after earnings, fueling hopes that software investors are rewarding fundamentals again.

From Barron's Aug. 8, 2026

U.S. retailers are fueling a longer-than-expected peak shipping season in Southern California, according to the leader of America’s busiest gateway for container imports, the WSJ Logistics Report’s Paul Berger writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

In addition, Shackleton allowed hot milk and sugar at regular intervals: the only way to keep going was by fueling themselves constantly.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

In Jharkhand, the protests began after last month's preliminary civil service exam results, with some candidates alleging that answer sheets shared online showed successful applicants had answered fewer questions than expected, fuelling suspicions of manipulation.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Aid disruptions and aftershocks across the Indonesian island of Flores are fuelling fears among thousands of survivors who were displaced by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake on Saturday.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

It comes as the group sees its server solutions optimized for artificial intelligence fuelling future revenue as the build-out of data centers accelerates.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Hotter seas can have damaging knock-on effects on the planet, fuelling stronger storms and rainfall and bleaching coral reefs.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

The schoolroom was perfumed with the smoke of peat, for it was the landward pupils' week of the fuelling, and they were accustomed to bring each his own peat under his arm every morning.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro




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