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Lubricated by an unsentimental disregard for historic rivalries, this arrangement should at long last silence the increasingly ludicrous pretense that college football’s premier programs are anything other than entertainment behemoths.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Speaking of noise, that’s kind of Stu Spasm’s thing — from Lubricated Goat in the late 1980s and Crime Wave in the early aughts to his current project, the Art Gray Noizz Quintet.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2018

Lubricated with an ample dose of science fiction by William Gibson, Frederik Pohl, and Philip K. Dick—“for relaxation”—Genis’s journal was just getting going.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2014

Lubricated with a sense of peace and blessing, I arose.

From Vesty of the Basins by Greene, Sarah P. McLean