assayer
Example Sentences
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A whistleblower, mine assayer David Fingado, disclosed the mine was meritless to CNN.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2022
The King is played in the film by Michael Shannon, a frequent assayer of the quirky and the offbeat in movies.
From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2016
“It’s one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2011
"It's one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851."
From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2011
The statement sometimes made that Agricola was the first assayer, is false if for no other reason than that science does not develop with such strides at any one human hand.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
