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[fyoo-uhl] / ˈfju əl /




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Many operators now avoid the passage and send ships instead around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, vastly prolonging the journey between Asia and Europe and driving up fuel costs and emissions.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

China’s widespread adoption of electric vehicles has reduced domestic demand for fuel oil.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

The NTHCA's main reason for the request, alongside the cost of living, was due to high fuel prices and vehicle parts soaring in costs.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Such long-range attacks sparked major fuel shortages earlier this summer.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

It was impossible to say how much was there, but the nightmare scenario, that the fuel was dry and burning, had not turned out to be true.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

How Elon Musk leaned in to fossil fuels.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Motivating a new generation of animators and storytellers also fuels Buermann.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

As economies expand, copper will be required to build electricity networks for the transition away from fossil fuels, and to create data centres for artificial intelligence, BHP said.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

But the boss of oil company Adura, CEO Neil McCulloch, says fossil fuels will be needed for years to come and that producing them domestically will generate billions in tax revenues.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Eventually, however, the star will run out of its hydrogen and other nuclear fuels.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The Panama Canal will reduce shipping volumes from next month because of a drought fueled by the El Nino phenomenon, the operator of the strategic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans said Thursday.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

You should not be fueled by obligation or guilt.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

That’s not to mention the massive uptick in investment in surveillance apparatus, a move often fueled by artificial intelligence.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

It is a brutal lesson, too, in the risks of leverage, or investment bets fueled by borrowing, several years after Archegos Capital’s implosion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Not because the Gamemakers couldn't keep it fueled but because, again, that would invite accusations of boredom from the audience.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

The popularity of electric motorbikes has been fuelled in part by social media.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Europe has been swept by weeks of devastating wildfires fuelled by dry conditions and a historically hot summer, with France, Greece, Portugal and Spain also battling major fires.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

The 22-year-old has fuelled the Tartan Army with hope that he can provide cutting edge at the top end of the pitch, something they have craved for some time.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The cut-throat competition has fuelled a sprawling coaching industry where students spend years preparing, often at enormous financial cost for their families.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

His personal identification with romantic heroes such as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet seemed to have fuelled not just musical inspiration but his crazed, desperate infatuation with a Shakespearean actress, Harriet Smithson.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Other countries have fallen victim to debt spirals, where high levels of debt lead investors to demand higher interest rates, in turn fueling more borrowing until eventually a country defaults.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Sacks said in June that retaining customer data was “creating a new level of AI haves and have-nots,” and fueling outrage among software developers using the tools.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Retailers say one group is fueling the trend—a cohort they’re most eager to capture: Gen Z.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Atlassian, Twilio, JFrog, and Cloudflare surge after earnings, fueling hopes that software investors are rewarding fundamentals again.

From Barron's Aug. 8, 2026

The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

"As sport nutritionists we were all fascinated at what the fuelling programme was, and it was the sports drinks and gels that played a huge part of that fuelling," Close says.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

It comes as the group sees its server solutions optimized for artificial intelligence fuelling future revenue as the build-out of data centers accelerates.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

As it enters Assam's vast floodplains, home to some 28 million people and hemmed in by hills, it slows and deposits sediment, fuelling erosion and floods.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Washington's move came as the yen rebounded sharply last week, fuelling speculation that Japanese authorities had also intervened in currency markets.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

This matter of fuelling steamers is a serious one at such distances from the coal-mines; it costs the Peninsular Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a year.

From Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne




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