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billet

[bil-it] / ˈbɪl ɪt /


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The spot premium for low-carbon billet, a fabricated product often used in construction, has slid to zero from $30 a tonne in January, he said.

From Reuters Dec. 17, 2022

“When he was here, we would go for drives and he would sing, he would dance, he would laugh,” said his billet mom, Kim Pagé.

From Washington Post Dec. 9, 2021

In the pre-show room of the ride, look for a solid microcrystalline silicon billet, ancient silicon wafer chips, vintage cartridge casings for hard drive disks and microscopes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2021

A bouquet of pink roses adorned the box, which read: “to Evan, game day special, love your billet brother and sister Colten and Shelby.”

From Washington Times Apr. 9, 2018

The dirt lane to my new billet is lined with trees and thorny bushes, barely wide enough for one car.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

But outfoxing competition from the private sector has proven elusive, particularly in cybersecurity jobs, even though the military offers tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses for such billets.

From Washington Post Sep. 21, 2022

Many were paid more, too: At boarding school they had received vocational training that qualified them for better billets, as carpenters’ mates, shipwrights, blacksmiths, electricians and colliers, among others.

From New York Times Aug. 31, 2021

Several women have completed the grueling training for elite special operations billets.

From Washington Times Aug. 9, 2021

A GI billets in a relative’s castle, haunted by a cowardly 300-year-old ghost.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 13, 2019

We stroll over to the meadow behind the billets.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

As the soldiers were billeted with local families between 1943 and 1944, Ms Fernandez said she was hoping someone may recognise Pte Cole's name or photograph.

From BBC Jan. 5, 2023

Grey Zone, a Telegram channel linked to the Wagner mercenary outfit, said that around 500 men were billeted in the complex.

From Reuters Jan. 3, 2023

We were billeted in the same bunk room, and, after a dinner of polenta, sausage, wild mushrooms, a cabbage salad and strudel, they showed me the route they would take to Venice.

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2022

The occupiers billeted at a local restaurant, Sashy, where Russian boots, military garb and ration boxes are still scattered about.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2022

“Because all the quarters billeted for majors and above are filled up,” Bull explained.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

I went to a desert staging ground to hear a brigadier general talk about unsexy stuff — how to move an army, the basics of feeding, billeting, equipping, transporting.

From Washington Post Jan. 29, 2021

Several back while at Edwards AFB..I was speaking with a couple of CPT's in the billeting break area.

From New York Times Dec. 11, 2017

Midwife Edith Smith came to Grantham in 1915 to help tackle prostitution after the billeting of 14,000 soldiers in the area during World War One.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2014

“Unfortunately, they were engineering personnel and they were building billeting for the A.N.A.”

From New York Times Jan. 8, 2013

During the reign of James II., however, orders were frequently issued for billeting, and one of the grievances in the Bill of Rights was the quartering of soldiers contrary to law.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various




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