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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

“We don’t know. The regiment arrived yesterday and commandeered every billet, every scrap of food, and every ship in the town. They’d have had this boat, too, if you hadn’t taken it.”

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

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

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

Mattis preferred to be close to the fighting, saying he disdains "chateau generals," a World War I phrase for commanders who stayed in comfortable billets while their troops fought in the trenches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2016

He could not see over it, and he staggered to the steps and up them and blundered crashing against the door, shedding billets.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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

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

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

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

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“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

On Jan. 26, 2008, Corporal Santiago, Corpsman Carpeso and Hollywood were together in a billeting container when the corpsman was shot in the eye.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2013

The officers of this department supervise all arrangements for loading and unloading at stations, forwarding, feeding, and billeting.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various