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Palm oil output could remain under pressure from dry weather and wildfires, while low water levels could disrupt coal transportation and nickel production in near term, they reckon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The same bill authorizes the Mint to make the nickel out of cheaper stuff, an inner layer of zinc wrapped in nickel, subject to testing that it actually lowers the cost.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The metallic Ni observed after a reaction may simply form when nickel oxide is reduced by syngas at high temperatures, rather than representing the species that actually performs the catalysis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

But now experts have developed new "super elastic" springs using a special metal called nitinol, a nickel and titanium alloy, with Rory the first patient to have them fitted.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

He wondered if the old man would accept two dimes and a nickel instead.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

The overall energy of the trip and the relationships strengthened by shared experience are worth much more than the nickels and dimes you won’t miss in the long run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The chain bundled food with items like character buttons, wooden nickels, hand puppets and drinking glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2025

If a man could give five million dollars away, then millions must be as common to him as nickels.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Marina thought there was inadequate medical oversight, and said the program "nickeled and dimed" her for additional services, like physicians' visits, that she thought would be included.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

“I can’t think of a worse business – high fixed costs, commodity product, worsening service, alienated customers sick of being nickeled and dimed for every amenity.”

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2022

“It does seem people feel they are being nickeled and dimed on paperwork,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

Teams this time of year are good enough to survive being nickeled and dimed for a run every couple innings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017

Propelled by an unseen force, a celestial globe mounted on a nickeled standard, rolled forth.

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams

We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

For copper, when the supply began to grow short, nickelled iron was quickly substituted.

From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes

A noise of light footsteps muffled by a rug, high heels tapping on uncovered floor, the scrape of a drawer pulled out: and she returned to give him a little nickelled electric torch.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

It was the bright nickelled handle-bar which had caught his eye.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore

In the pocket of a hanging coat was thrust a nickelled rod from a patent trousers-stretcher, so that it pointed out into the room.

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Sax Rohmer

“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016

Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

One shining in the freshness of new nickelling; the other an old thing of battered tin, with faded gold letters.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick

The treatment in hot baths of alkali and cyanide is the method generally employed in American factories as a preliminary to the nickelling of small brass work for sewing machines, etc.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall