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Recent Examples of high-octaneBut delivering that level of craft in a high-octane room where the hissing espresso machine competes with the bassline?—
Carly Boers,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Aug. 2026 But over the course of numerous sequels and reboots, the franchise largely shifted away from resonant character drama in favor of high-octane action sequences and increasingly monstrous beasts.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
14 Aug. 2026 Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Deal If your student is enrolled in a creative major and needs a PC that packs killer color accuracy and enough juice for high-octane apps, the Yoga Slim 7x might be the missing paint in their palette.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
14 Aug. 2026 Besides the high-octane action and deep story, there are tons of comic-book Easter eggs, costumes and claw combinations that fans will love.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
13 Aug. 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.
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.