tank
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His patch is on top of an empty water tank, where he spreads out a sheet and arranges two pillows.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Despite playing 17 games as they reached the Europa League quarter-finals in 2019-20, they still had enough in the tank to finish seventh in the league again.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Iran is using the fear factor of real physical risk to retain a measure of control,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Though not immediately visible to the naked eye, the ranch features a number of infrastructural updates, including automated irrigation and a fire suppression system that runs off an 18,000-gallon tank buried underground.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Ever since the Hunley was placed in this tank, researchers and scientists have been painstakingly cleaning a century-and-a-half of sand, sediment, corrosion, and encrustation from the world’s first successful combat submarine.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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In industrial production, bacteria are grown inside large fermentation tanks and given carbon-rich materials such as sugars, starch, or plant oils.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Last time around, Walmart said people were putting less gas in their tanks as they tried to manage higher costs of living.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Think tanks operate in the realm of ideas, and as everyone knows, there are different ways of measuring and presenting data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Summer is traditionally when energy firms take advantage of lower prices to fill LNG storage tanks, preparing for higher winter demand.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Kennedy did not have enough troops and tanks in Europe to stop a Soviet advance.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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The Lincoln’s extended deployment, already about three months longer than the typical carrier mission, appears to have tanked sailors’ morale.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
“On Running has been having year-over-year growth that is unseen, and they still get tanked when earnings come through.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The mNAV metric has a flaw that has grown acute as the prices of Strategy’s bonds and preferred shares have tanked along with its stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
You might want to lock in profits from a stock investment that has grown a lot, or sell something that tanked and use that loss for tax purposes to offset your gains.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
I clicked up some history on the area, heavily industrial, at least until the economy tanked.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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This week: Situational Awareness—an A.I.-forward hedge fund led by a former wunderkind and OpenAI employee—was tanking fast until a rival fund stepped in.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
Tokyo's Nikkei index was sharply lower, with Kioxia tanking 9.5 percent, Advantest off six percent down and Tokyo Electron five percent lower.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
As loss after loss piled up—and the good teams walked over their tanking opponents in contests that lost all meaning—players and coaches openly voiced their frustration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
And it was ripe with free-throw-abetting fouls by the Washington Wizards, an actively tanking team that got itself blown out, 150-129.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
The stocks of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were tanking, and it was clear that nothing short of the U.S. government could save them.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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