copper

The phenomenon is showing up in the cost of passing through the Panama Canal and in Chilean copper output, and might influence everything from Asia’s rice crop to the powder at Colorado ski resorts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Chilean copper producer Antofagasta reduced its production forecast after a freak storm deposited 5 million cubic meters of snow into its Los Pelambres mine in July, causing a stoppage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Hichilema entered the race as the clear favourite after steering Zambia -- Africa's second-largest copper producer -- through a major economic turnaround and restructuring its debt.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The threat of U.S. tariffs — the Commerce Department has outlined a potential phased universal tariff on refined copper in 2027 and 2028 — also prompted traders to pull forward months of future supply.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 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

In it he said: "Look at how many coppers there are in my house... That, ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we live in."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023

“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 Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

The pot-shops would give you a fistful of coppers for a litter of pups, she'd heard, but she didn't like to think about that.

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

She was coppered to the bends, was painted black to her rails, with the exception of a broad red ribbon round her, and was pierced for eighteen guns.

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson

Ten on the ace," droned the anxious dealer, "the jack is coppered.

From Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge

It is the watchword of the most thickly coppered Copperheads.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

During action this becomes coppered, while in contact with the sulphate of copper, but it is not attacked by the acid.

From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone

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

However, at a temperature of 50° C. the above receipt gives an excellent coppering liquid, which will coat zinc with a fine reguline deposit.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

Later I asked husband what "coppering" meant and he smiled and said: "betting that it will not win."

From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin

This year also the experiment for coppering ships’ bottoms as a preservation against worms was introduced into the Royal Navy, and tried on the Alarm frigate, of 32 guns.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston