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pumping

verb as in question relentlessly

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Oil companies are pumping out crude at a record rate, and demand can’t keep up.

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Oil companies are pumping out crude at a record rate, and demand can’t keep up.

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In the last fiscal year, the city spent $1.7 million on generators and fuel to keep them pumping.

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The "swarm" of tens of thousands of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini earlier this year was triggered by molten rock pumping through an underground channel over three months, scientists have discovered.

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Cleanup teams are skimming and pumping oil from the tributary and deploying absorbent booms and pads to recover oil trapped along the creek bed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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