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“Naturally, inflation is expected to heat up given the rise in crude oil prices amid renewed tensions in the Middle East,” says Matt Simpson, senior market analyst at StoneX, in commentary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

While major Middle East producers have managed to ramp up crude supplies in recent weeks, physical markets continue to signal severe tightness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Front-month Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, fell 1.7% to $104.86 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate futures slid 1.5% to $92.32 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Adnoc L&S supports offshore drilling projects and operates more than 100 ships used to transport crude oil, LNG and refined products globally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

There was a crude outline of an adult male on the pulpit of a harpoon boat.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

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

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

Later sections where you rely on even cruder tech to spot enemies ratchet up the tension further, at the expense of making the gameplay much slower.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Yet this desire to take over Greenland seems to stem from an impulse even cruder than one might suspect.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 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

A cruder hand had drawn the giant of House Umber.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors.

From "1984" by George Orwell