billet
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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
One of the first things he did was inform his coaches and billet families from his time in Everett.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 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
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
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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
Later, Gerdau will move the billets into a furnace where they will be heated to more than 2,000 degrees and softened so they can be rerolled, “like Play-Doh,” into products, Mr. Skelley said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
State stands to lose not only the 12,000-plus personnel billets associated with the work but also the more than $3 billion annually that consular fees bring in.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2017
As it turns dark we go to our billets, Tjaden in the centre.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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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
They have skated in 11 cities, four time zones and two countries, flown in every direction on the compass and billeted in almost a dozen hotels across the continent.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
It was here that Louis XIV's soldiers were billeted during the persecution of the Protestant Huguenots - ancestors of the modern population - in the 17th Century.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2021
More than 20,000 National Guard troops are billeted in the nation’s capital to keep peace during the inauguration.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
“Because all the quarters billeted for majors and above are filled up,” Bull explained.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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“No one will be assigned billeting in any unit until all safety and habitability standards are met,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
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
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
His views of things might have been considerably quickened by billeting upon his household a few of the Ironsides.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson
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