barrels

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The event features barrel racing, where horses run around a path with sharp turns marked by barrels.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

A Greek supertanker laden with two million barrels of crude communicated with the U.S. while it crossed the waterway off the Omani coast earlier this week.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Upstream production meanwhile, has also stalled, largely as a result of the closure of the Strait, with production in the region down some 10 million barrels per day from prewar levels.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

So far, the U.S. has released about 50 million barrels of those promised 172 million barrels.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Fifty feet of rope, a ten-foot plank, and some big steel barrels, what sometimes they call drums.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick