crude

Brent crude oil rose above $86 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Washington has authorized the arrival of only one Russian tanker -- carrying 100,000 tons of crude -- which came in March.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Energy experts see a general pattern in prices for crude oil and gasoline in which a $10 increase in crude usually translates into an increase of about 25 cents at the pump.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

The price of a barrel of Brent crude, which is the global benchmark for oil, hit $87 on Tuesday, an increase of almost $10 in the space of 24 hours.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

It was filled with pictures, diagrams, crude drawings, and the like—for, as Brickbane had reminded Clare, not every animal was lucky enough to read.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

“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

There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding U.S.-Iran tensions, and “the market for non-sanctioned crudes is tight,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

We should be able to ensure that we can access the optimum crudes for our economy.

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 Slosson, Edwin E.

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

The stage for his artistic blossoming was set in 1482, when he left the rich mercantile city of Florence for the cruder, more bumptious northern city of Milan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024

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

Aker BioMarine’s financial wherewithal depends on another, cruder type of oil: Norway’s massive natural gas and petroleum exports.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

The head made Kendra think of a wooden hockey mask, though that was not quite right, because it was cruder and simpler.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

“Dead Ringers” — a gender-swapped remake of the 1988 David Cronenberg film — opens by addressing our attraction to the idea of twins in its crudest form.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

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

His sun sights were the crudest of guesses, and to look up positions in the tables he had to peel apart the wet pages one by one.

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