earth
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Opencast mining involves scraping rock and earth away at the surface to recover coal - creating an open pit, rather than digging deep underground.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
That pastoral scene is gone: Heavy trucks, earth movers and hundreds of construction workers have run nearly round-the-clock for about two years building a Meta Platforms data center.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The question for investors is when supply may catch up to demand and bring price growth back down to earth.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
But there is no paradise on earth, and for now and forever in some way, this place is my home.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Once, they had been very helpful in the mines since they can sense large veins of gold from a mile away and deep in the earth.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Vocabulary lists containing earth
Space Science (Astronomy) - Introductory
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Global Climate Change - Introductory
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Earth Science - Middle School
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