gas
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At the start of the year, a full tank of gas cost $1,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The European Central Bank raised its key interest rate for the second time this year last month, judging the surge in oil and gas prices to be too strong to ignore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Japan and South Korea are using more coal to replace scarce and expensive oil and gas.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
It has taken the biggest hit after the war with Iran sent gas prices soaring, hurting the beleaguered industry that hauls 70% of all freight in America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ama and Woo are a few steps away, writhing on the ground in clouds of pale green gas.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The industrial gases company wants to grow net earnings per share by a compound annual growth rate of 10% over the period while targeting a 400 to 600 basis point improvement in its margin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The United States is the world's second-biggest emitter of planet-heating gases.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
He brought with him a new collection of isotope measurements from gases trapped in Zaonega rocks that had not yet been fully interpreted.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Going into the New York sewer system is both illegal and dangerous, officials have said, cautioning that there is a risk of toxic gases and flooding in a confined space.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The initial gases, and the energy sources, are common throughout the Cosmos.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The industrial gasses company said Monday that it wants to grow net earnings per share by a compound annual growth rate of 10% over the period, from the 6.1 euros it reported for 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It is thought the premises in Cresswell Crescent were being refurbished and a generator released toxic gasses.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
Unlike visible light, radio waves from hot gasses are not blocked that easily by cosmic dust.
From Space Scoop ● Mar. 27, 2025
"Current scientific models in the presence of ongoing rises in atmospheric greenhouse gasses do not predict this threatening acceleration," Professor Smith said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
After the regulator freezes the C02 out, the oxygen and nitrogen are still gasses, but they're —75°C. If the regulator fed that back to my air without reheating it, I'd be a Popsicle within hours.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Fitness is next: He looked a little gassed against Zverev, and admitted as much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Morris’s mother and father, respectively, were an accomplished organist and a mechanic who had been gassed in World War I. Like Waugh, Morris boarded as a teenager at Lancing College in West Sussex, England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
While showing few outward signs of struggling with the foot blisters which troubled him in the quarter-finals, Djokovic regularly looked gassed against Sinner before finding further reserves to win in four hours and nine minutes.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
On Friday night, their already overworked bullpen had been gassed again by their extra-inning gantlet.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
Whatever they gassed us with, it had to be simulation- inducing or I wouldn’t be the only one awake.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
"From the first round, I saw his gassing out. He started fast. I knew he was going to gas out. I knew when my chance came I needed to push. That is what I did."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The rest stop duration may require a bit more time than gassing up, and that is an added safety factor on a road trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Some travelers say they can’t afford not to travel, however, so they’re putting all options on the table — from booking rail tickets to gassing up their cars.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2025
The shelter-in-place order was lifted Tuesday night, but officials reinstated the order Wednesday morning, saying gassing occurred as crews tried to remove the load.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
It's like he felt tougher whenever he started blabbing about it, gassing his own head up, turning the story into a much bigger deal than it really was.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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