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While shipping markets continue to price in disruptions well into 2027, “potential additional dark flows and price-sensitive China net crude imports may moderate the upside to crude oil prices even if Mideast disruptions last longer.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

However, higher crude tanker freight rates in 3Q are expected to lift its unit AET’s earnings in 4Q with a lag, while seasonally stronger rates could sustain performance into 1Q 2027, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

China remains able to buy Iranian crude, an important source of revenue for Tehran, via overland routes not reliant on the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Maritime security firm Ambrey said a Kuwaiti crude oil tanker was hit late Tuesday off the coast of Oman, causing a fire on board.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“It is a rash and crude hypothesis,” Darwin confessed, “but it has been a considerable relief to my mind.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

“We displaced international crudes with domestic grades into our refining system and sold the international barrels into tight overseas markets,” Brian Mandell, a Phillips 66 executive, told investors in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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

Phillips 66 already has refineries that can process heavy crudes; they have been processing heavy crude from Canada for years.

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 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

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

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

But as a patrol of environmentalists approaches the Chilean super trawler in an inflatable boat, the cruder realities of modern industrial fishing come into view.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

"That is not the modus operandi. It's slightly cruder than that, on the whole."

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023

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

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

“It’s very difficult to find reliable indicators for even the crudest differences between pleasant and unpleasant music, let alone for the subtle differences that make a nice musical piece become a hit,” he says.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 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