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Even a more than seven percent plunge in oil prices Monday was unable to provide support.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Still, ANZ analysts note that the oil market is wary of “stop-and-go diplomatic efforts that haven’t delivered peace, with the two adversaries yet to agree on terms for fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Tech stocks’ early Monday gains are starting to slip away, despite a slide in oil prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Indonesia's wildfires are a yearly occurrence, widely associated with industrial-scale land clearing to make way for crops like oil palm.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Why, Daisy, I couldn’t take any of that nasty stuff. All you think about is castor oil. If I even mash my finger, the first thing you do is grab that old castor oil bottle.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Commodities such as cedar, tin/lead, oils, tree resins, lapis lazuli and silver, all materials that Egypt lacked, were imported by the Egyptian state.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

His first beat was covering oils, fats and waxes for the weekly trade periodical Chemical Market Reporter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The South Korean refiner is a global leader in premium lubricant base oils, producing about 80,000 barrels of Group III base oils a day, Chung writes in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Those roots contain fragrant compounds that can be extracted to make essential oils.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

The room's wonders had unfolded to us for hours: perfume atomizers and color crème-cakes and rouge-sticks and powders and kohl pencils and golden vinaigrettes and pastilles and potpourri and oils and sachets.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The charity said the 13 birds had been collected and taken away to be cleaned but several other "partially oiled" birds were spotted and proved unable to be retrieved.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

In college, I found a treadle machine in an empty dorm room, oiled it and made a blouse and quilt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

When I finally nailed a roast chicken — buttered and oiled, stuffed with lemon wedges and hunks of onion and fennel — I felt like a goddess.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

“Once it gets challenged or exposed, the gaslighting and redirection of the blame toward anyone willing to tell the truth starts through an international well oiled publicity machine,” Freedman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024

The flame seared the tip of the oiled cloth and sizzled toward the bottleneck.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

I learned that oiling the blade prevents humidity from tarnishing the steel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

The high concentration of pine forest in North Gyeongsang province, where the fires are burning, is also "oiling" the blaze, said a forest disaster expert.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025

If commoners' living standards slip—not relative to the elites, but relative to what they had before—they accept the overtures of the counter-elites and start oiling the axles of their tumbrels.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2023

The final count for the spill will likely be closer to the lower figure, which correlates with the amount of oiling seen on the California shore.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2021

Amaka was in the living room with Papa-Nnukwu, slowly oiling the few tufts of hair on his head with Vaseline.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie