gallon
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By then, a gallon of gas averaged around $4.50, according to AAA.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The giant US retailer steered much of the benefit from US tariff refunds towards investments to attract inflation-strapped customers, who faced gasoline prices above $4 a gallon for much of the quarter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The conflict has caused gas prices in the US to spike to above $4 a gallon, a painful hike to any US business that relies on transport.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
While for oil majors the extraordinary margins are boosting earnings, for consumers they mean higher prices at the pump; the U.S. average gasoline price topped $4 a gallon this year, from $3.16 a year ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dan gave Brian a long-sleeved shirt and then threw up “what seemed a gallon of ash,” he remembered.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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The proposed center in Nodaway County, about 40 miles from here, would use municipal wastewater in a closed-loop cooling system that, according to the project website, requires an initial 1.5 million gallons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The equipment enables the A400M to carry more than 5,000 gallons of water, all of which can be released in a single gravity-drop maneuver and refilled in about 10 minutes back on the ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Their individual payloads of more than 1,000 gallons of water are then dumped onto the flames below.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
When 17 million gallons of water poured out of a broken water main under Sunset Boulevard into downhill neighborhoods in West Hollywood, family businesses and residents’ cars and personal items were in the flood zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Though the heart weighs less than a can of soup, a healthy heart pumps two thousand gallons of blood each day.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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