by-product
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The company expects its full-year gold by-product costs applicable to sales to be $925 per ounce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
There’s even a computer-generated Elon, a by-product of Gibney not securing a face-to-face interview with the tycoon himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Instead, they are a by-product of the ear's physiological sound amplification process.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
A key raw material for many of these plastic goods is ethylene, which is derived from naphtha, an oil by-product.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
It’s a by-product of the famous superstition about splitting an infinitive.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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The licence was issued as environmental watchdogs such as Greenpeace raised concerns over the management of radioactive by-products.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
She also expects MMG’s copper-production costs to fall thanks to higher prices for its by-products and lower copper-concentrate treatment charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
This metabolism creates toxic by-products called formaldehyde, formate and formic acid.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
Fear and suspicion are, of course, common by-products of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
If this is all that atoms have, then the qualities that we perceive in the world—colour, taste, smell, sound, texture, temperature—must be by-products of size, shape and movement.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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