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fuel

[fyoo-uhl] / ˈfju əl /




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Higher fuel prices and a severe El Nino could add to domestic inflation pressures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some businesses in Jersey have expressed concern about the impact of rising global fuel prices.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The president has also unveiled debt relief for small businesses, new university grants and measures to ease fuel costs, while proposing free weekend public transport.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the optimistic scenario sketched out by the IMF, productivity gains from widespread AI adoption fuel a goldilocks period of robust economic growth and contained inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Concerned about the fallout from such a massive blast, Sakharov’s team had removed some of the nuclear fuel, lowering the bomb’s yield to fifty megatons—still, by far, the largest human-made explosion in history.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The use of fossil fuels to power the centre prompted criticism from environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth Cymru.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

By revealing chemical steps that simpler models might miss, the technique offers scientists a more complete picture of complex catalytic reactions and new opportunities to improve processes used to produce fuels and chemicals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

They said the British energy giant should be held responsible because of its past and current greenhouse gas emissions associated with exploration, production and sale of fossil fuels.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

The companies are collecting on record-high margins for diesel and other fuels as global supplies shrink and prices skyrocket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Thus love fuels war, turning it into an inferno whose heat and smoke rise to the heavens.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The Norte fire is burning in a hilly area in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, fueled by intense winds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

He fueled the “Talarico is missing” narrative from the stage and through his tip line.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup reported higher third-quarter profits, fueled in part by AI-related revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

JetBlue, American lead selloff fueled by high inflation data and ongoing jet fuel cost increases.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

I was aware that my original reason for talking to Maribel, which had been fueled by a sense of responsibility, had been replaced by something else: I just wanted to be around her.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

In advanced economies, growth fuelled by the AI boom and other factors remained strong.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Isaias is one of three storm systems affecting North America this weekend, with the two others hitting Mexico and Southern California in the El-Niño fuelled warm waters of the Pacific Ocean.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

One strategist said the turmoil in sovereign-bond markets could cause widespread ripple effects because much of the AI-driven economic expansion is fuelled by credit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The protests were fuelled by the eviction last month of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from the Madrid flat where she had lived for decades.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

These forfeited food surpluses fuelled politics, wars, art and philosophy.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

A California e-commerce platform is fueling the rise of live shopping in the United States, taking on giants such as TikTok and tackling concerns that the app is draining people’s bank accounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Rising energy and fertiliser costs are hitting smallholder farmers and driving up prices of agricultural commodities, fueling fears of a global food crisis, the head of the UN agriculture development fund told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

A recent $200-million gift is fueling a university-wide push into artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Nicholas G. Miller lays out how the flexible loans are fueling a neighborhood renaissance while drawing scrutiny over fraud risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Nigerians, Ugandans, Kenyans, Ghanaians, South Africans, Tanzanians, Zimbabweans, one Congolese, and one Guinean sat around eating, talking, fueling spirits, and their different accents formed meshes of solacing sounds.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It has prompted hundreds of people to gather at refugee reception centres, fuelling anger among anti-immigration campaigners who fear the decision will encourage undocumented migration.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

WIPO, the UN patent and innovation agency, said AI was shortening the paths of discovery and fuelling much of the world's economic growth.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Artificial intelligence is fuelling a rebound in investment in innovation, with corporate research and development spending reaching record highs, the United Nations said Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

A weak yen tends to make imported goods more expensive, thus fuelling inflation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 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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