copper
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Echoing that signature yellow hue: a walnut island, a hammered barrel-vaulted copper hood, a copper farmhouse sink and replicated 1920s cabinetry painted “Matchstick” by Farrow & Ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Let me know if it gets to be too much,” the therapist at Capella Singapore’s Auriga Spa said as she ground a copper gua sha tool into my muscles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The US has been maintaining active tariffs ranging from 15% to 50% on Canadian steel, aluminum, and copper.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
That could build on American interest in mining operations in vast southwestern Balochistan province, home to one of the world's largest untapped reserves of copper -- an in-demand resource for AI data centre construction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
He pointed to two thin strands of copper wire connected to the black box.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
He emptied out Russian identity papers, bank notes in the Russian currency, the rouble, and small change in Belorussian coppers.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2022
“This isn’t the local coppers coming down, these are men in dark suits.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
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
He eats, he sleeps in a house he made himself, he has coppers in his sash.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their brown skins coppered by the rosy glow of the setting sun, they stood in strained suspense awaiting the climax.
From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Thomson, Charles Goff
On the 8th she was taken into dock, not having been coppered since 1784.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir
I’ve played hunches and coppered hunches, and lost both ways.
From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph
The man saw that the gambler was fleecing the farmer, and he had coppered and won of course, thus blocking the dealer’s game.
From Life Gleanings by Macon, T. J.
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
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 Hough, Emerson
Well, have your own way; but I'll fool you again, while you're coppering me.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon
Later I asked husband what "coppering" meant and he smiled and said: "betting that it will not win."
From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll
Naturally I'd been prejudiced against him not only by his mother's praise but by his father's steady coppering of the same.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
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