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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

“Plenty to keep the inner creature satisfied. Scorching June weather, and a top-hole billet for snoozin’, what, what?”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Mr. Carter’s decision to open combat billets to women upended policy as old as the U.S. military itself: Women could only support, not fight in, America’s wars.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

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

The caster is so large that it sits in its own eight-story warehouse, forming the molten steel into long rectangular blocks called billets and then cooling them.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018

We stroll over to the meadow behind the billets.

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

Stupnikov slipped away and buried the compromised device—one of three in his possession—in the garden of the house where he was billeted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

Sheena and George have speculated that Eric was billeted with the Hunter family, and was perhaps involved in paying the munition workers in the town.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2020

Extra police have been billeted in two cruise ships in Barcelona harbor.

From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2017

The houses in which we are billeted lie near the canal.

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

“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

We sent forward, as was customary, a detail of officers to make sure that billeting accommodations were forthcoming and that everything would be as comfortable as possible for the men.

From Average Americans by Theodore Roosevelt


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