طرق النطق
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/ˈfɹækɪŋ/
اسم
Hydraulic fracturing.
الاستعمال- غير معدود
- usually
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أمثلة إضافية (3)
Still, environmentalists look to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry about higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get the gas—and water contamination.
There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland.
Slowly, they marched toward a bigger role in the fracking industry. When competing Texas frackers looked to freeze the brothers out from the companies that distribute the sand needed to drill, the siblings opened their own sand quarry to thrive.
The fracking boom has been fuelled mostly by overheated investment capital, not by cash flow.
أمثلة إضافية (2)
The criticisms were made in the wake of the government’s decision on Friday to impose a moratorium on fracking in the UK. A review published by the Oil and Gas Authority concluded it was impossible to predict the likelihood or scale of earthquakes triggered by fracking.
It has been driven by a remarkable new way of extracting money from human beings: call it “human fracking”. Just as petroleum frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergents into the ground to force a little monetisable black gold to the surface, human frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergent into our faces (in the form of endless streams of addictive slop and maximally disruptive user-generated content), to force a slurry of human attention to the surface, where they can collect it, and take it to market.
صفة
Fucking.
الاستعمال- euphemistic
- not-comparable
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He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter.
As we said before, will someone please agree on a fracking dual videocard standard?
أمثلة إضافية (1)
It was a fracking nightmare.
اسم
a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid
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