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refine

[ri-fahyn] / rɪˈfaɪn /




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Success and failure help to refine how the data is interpreted.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Moving it through a pipeline and into a tanker requires treatment that would add $15 a barrel to its cost, he estimates, not counting the specialized equipment needed to refine it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Dangote Industries says it will import most of the crude oil it plans to refine from Nigeria, the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

According to Asymmetric, the agents were able to refine their techniques in a matter of days, a process that typically takes traditional hackers months or even years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

There they began to apply skills they had learned from the Muslims: how to plant sugar cane, and how to refine sugar.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

The creative team then reviews and refines multiple AI-generated versions of a scene before deciding which expressions and line readings best serve the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Today, China refines more than 90% of the world’s rare earths, the International Energy Agency says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Dangote refines both Nigerian and imported oil, so it is exposed to world market fluctuations.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Edwin Chen, whose 6-year-old business Surge AI refines AI models, is the wealthiest of the new class of AI billionaires, worth about $18 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026

A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself, erects cities like those out there, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

“If this hurricane ends up causing refinery flooding, it would exacerbate an already tight market for refined products, further pushing up prices at the pump,” Molchanov told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Global oil supplies have been restricted since the conflict in the Middle East effectively halted the usual flow of oil and refined products through the Strait of Hormuz for months.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Factor in the structural global shortfall in refining capacity, and we get retail prices of diesel and other refined products at record highs,” she added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

It said the model, which is still being refined, was built on 4,000 Nvidia chips over two months at its own data centres in Europe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

He took out a number of small steel splinters from my thighs with delicate and refined distaste.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

The upgrade stems from higher Brent prices and strong refining margins, he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"If oil flows from the Middle East are disrupted once more, or if there are more attacks on refineries or more refineries shut down, refining margins could move higher," Brooks forecast.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Nowhere has the war’s impact on the global energy system been more pronounced in recent months than in the refining sector, where crude oil is turned into the products that power the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

But the multihyphenate did talk about refining the material in his set, his film work and his appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

With most of the slaves working the mines, and only a few toiling inside the ramshackle refining sheds, the giant yard was almost deserted.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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