oil
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Investors are closely watching developments in the Middle East and crude oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Dhar finds it difficult to predict when oil flows in the Strait of Hormuz—through which one-fifth of the world’s oil typically passes—will recover materially, given still-elevated U.S.-Iran tensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The company has raised prices and set strict volume limits on purchases of its house brand oil.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
That gap points to growing concerns over global crude supplies, as well as jitters about the physical oil supply immediately available to the market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Frank Aureate’s house had clearly once, long ago, been grand—the kind of house with attics and wine cellars, and oil paintings of disapproving-looking women holding small, disapproving-looking dogs—but now it wasn’t grand at all.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Cut off from imported fats and oils, U.S. processors turned to domestic vegetable oils, especially soybean oil.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Other toxic hazards include Himalayan salt lamps and essential oils, Butler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Higher palm and soy oil prices more than offset declines in sunflower and rapeseed oils.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Experts say poor monsoon rains will also reduce domestic oilseed production, increasing the country's reliance on imported edible oils.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Our oils are so good,” he said, “we’ve started eating into the profits of the large corporate producers. They know all about them Westovers in Idaho.”
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
Exterior walls, built from Douglas fir, were freshly oiled and flammable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
After it’s finished cooking on the oiled flat top, it’s sliced into large strips that can then be rolled up and dunked into the yogurt sauce and eaten.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Frightful shook out her feathers and preened and oiled them.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
I learned that oiling the blade prevents humidity from tarnishing the steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
While Roy takes care of the heavy machinery, Alfie looks after the sanding and oiling.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
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
Inspired by the Southeast Asian ritual of hair oiling, this serum contains three simple, organic ingredients: sunflower oil, jasmine oil and amla extract.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
As she watched Jason work, she admired how easily he did each task, whether it was fixing a door or oiling saddles.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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