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With a hosepipe of cash from one of the world’s most crucial resources—hydrocarbons—the country has plowed tens of billions into foreign assets, some during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic while Wall Street was reeling.—Byvivienne Walt, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023 A few feet away in the grass were a couple of plastic jerricans, a length of hosepipe sticking out of one of them.—Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021 The boats are as close to the Angolan side of the river as can be, tethered to Congo by 50-foot ropes and pale hosepipes that pump air to the divers.—Tom Wilson, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
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