copper

Jen Scott accepted a plastic cup and scooped up a pea-sized dab containing GHK-Cu, a copper tripeptide frequently used in topical beauty products for its reported skin-firming properties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

When the X-rays struck the copper, they knocked electrons out of the atoms' innermost electron shells, leaving behind empty positions known as 'holes'.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

The two communication systems that survived were copper wire landline telephones and FM radio.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

We’ve all heard that the AI boom needs a lot of resources—power, water, chips, copper, land.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

There wasn’t much in it—two apples, a dented water gourd, and the small purse of copper shabas Baaz had begrudgingly given as a “stipend” for her venture—but she pulled the bag closer.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Her odyssey also takes her to Falster, an island at the bottom of the country, where she finds “a cluster of sooty coppers on a few glossy yellow flowers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Mette, who has been with the department for 18 years, told "young coppers" they have a "long way to go."

From Fox News ● Oct. 21, 2021

“You want to say ‘I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

There do exist bent coppers as the saying goes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018

"My royal brother loves tournaments and feasts," Renly Baratheon said, "and he loathes what he calls 'counting coppers.'"

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.

From Time Magazine Archive

But by 1783 ships of every class were coppered.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

To seaward he could gaze down a vista of rocky and deserted islets resembling slag heaps, where the sinking sun showed like a red-hot spot in the huge, coppered oven in which he found himself.

From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell

She was coppered; not a sheet of metal was off, not a rent anywhere visible through the length and breadth of the dingy green surface of it.

From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell

Yet at times he had what he called a "coppered hunch."

From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer

Clampett & Co. expect to get richer still on royalties, and are coppering their bet by making a round-the-world tour, beating bandits and fattening the market for their book.

From Time Magazine Archive

The practice of coppering, though then fully adopted, had not yet been extended to all vessels.

From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The invention of coppering the ships' bottoms, and thus adding to their speed, although generally practiced in England, had been applied in France only to the smaller part of the navy.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell

Not that you have not played your game well enough, but there never was a game played so well that some other fellow could not win by coppering it.

From 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough

When both ends are silvered the process of coppering by electro deposit is commenced.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall