as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
that artist is known to have created only oils and charcoal sketches
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as in to grease
to coat (something) with a slippery substance in order to reduce friction
if you oil the machinery on a regular basis, it will operate more efficiently
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Recent Examples of oil
Sarah Min, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
Of course, the hydration is phenomenal, too, with ingredients like hyaluronic acid providing long-lasting moisture, passionflower seed oil to soothe stressed skin, and bacuri butter that replenishes the skin barrier by restoring essential fatty and amino acids.
—Alexandra Folino, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2025
Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 7 Jan. 2025
The spray-on scent has a skin-softening base of sweet almond, macadamia, argan, and apricot kernel oils.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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Noun
At the same time, oil prices have remained the same on the year.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
Of course, the hydration is phenomenal, too, with ingredients like hyaluronic acid providing long-lasting moisture, passionflower seed oil to soothe stressed skin, and bacuri butter that replenishes the skin barrier by restoring essential fatty and amino acids.
—Alexandra Folino, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
Lightly oil your knife or coat with nonstick spray and cut the caramel into 1 inch squares.
—Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 7 Jan. 2025
The spray-on scent has a skin-softening base of sweet almond, macadamia, argan, and apricot kernel oils.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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Noun
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But the transcendence never quite ports over to his paintings of this era.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Catherine’s collection soon ballooned as the empress amassed 4,000 paintings, 38,000 books, 10,000 engraved gems, 10,000 drawings, and 16,000 coins and medals.—
Sarah Holzmann,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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Wonder what palms Sam Altman greased for Trevor Noah to suggest AI can make a new Rihanna album happen.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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City leaders would not say whether the poles were greased ahead of Sunday’s game, which the Eagles won 55-23 over the Washington Commanders.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
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The seal said the canvas came from a shop that supplied artists in Montmartre in the early 1900s, but there were no clues about who made the painting.—
The Editors of ARTnews,
ARTnews.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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The first patch that fell off had been on my butt, one of three permissible canvases for estradiol patches, the other two being abdomen and thigh.—
Nell Beram,
Allure,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Oil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oil. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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