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Recent Examples of high-octaneMainly notable for its high-octane car chases and terrific stunt work, the film should, like most of Neeson’s recent efforts, find its biggest audiences on streaming and cable.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2026 Models literally ran down the catwalk at times during Adidas’ high-octane show with multiple acts.—
Stephy Chung,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2026 Rookie Josue De Paula showed down the stretch, and with his plate discipline even in high-octane moments in the postseason, just how impactful the young players in the Dodgers’ system could be.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Oct. 2026 But Misiorowski’s right arm, which has brought the Brewers to the brink of the World Series, is likely still thousands of high-octane fastballs away from earning him a long-term contract reflective of his value.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for high-octane
The graduation ceremony and the reception afterward are cute and heartwarming for the grown-ups, bittersweet and mortifying for the kids, who skive off to smoke some of Ed’s high-test weed and have a little Texas Forever moment, toasting their enduring friendships.
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Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
Unlike many rocket engines used for hypersonic vehicles, the Draper engine runs on high-test hydrogen peroxide and kerosene.
Because the richest tenth of Americans own nearly 90% of household stock-market wealth, every dollar shifted from paychecks to profit flows almost undiluted to the top.
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Christopher Marquis,
Time,
16 Oct. 2026
The closing look circled back to the same idea, but this time the same model carried the bag with a black skirt suit, the most undiluted iteration of Chanel.
Sellke, Shi, and Wang then showed that after a certain number of shuffles (which depended on how many cards were in the deck), the overlap between the decks’ regions of unmixed cards disappeared at an exponential rate.
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John Pavlus,
Quanta Magazine,
17 June 2026
Baking the cake unmixed creates a deliciously gooey cake that is crumbly and buttery on top.