pumped

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Refiners Valero Energy and Phillips 66 PSX -1.65%decrease; red down pointing triangle posted strong earnings last month as they raised utilization rates and pumped more fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

For now, prices are “in a holding pattern, waiting to see if the extra reserves pumped into the market run out before the patience of the warring parties,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Musk pumped millions of dollars into the lab, which he subsequently left.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Quantitative easing has pumped up asset markets from the beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

She pumped four pails of water at the well, just as Mother had asked, and hauled them back one by one.

From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins