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diesel

[dee-zuhl, -suhl] / ˈdi zəl, -səl /
NOUN
diesel engine
Synonyms


NOUN
locomotive
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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And surging diesel prices can drive up costs for everything including planting, harvesting and transporting crops.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

How much more Americans spent on gasoline and diesel during the Iran war than the same period a year earlier.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

The problem is the higher upfront cost of demand-destroying green technologies, such as electric trucks that replace diesel engines and heat pumps that replace gas furnaces.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The UK government has loosened strict sanctions on Russian oil refined into diesel and jet fuel in third countries as prices rise.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Symbolically, a Desire bus hurtled past me, its diesel exhaust almost strangling me.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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