copper
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Glencore slides 3.4% while copper miner Antofagasta falls 6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
A White House plan to broaden tariffs on imports of refined copper has stalled because of the ramifications for U.S. manufacturers, Reuters reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Insatiable demand for artificial-intelligence infrastructure was a key factor in the copper rally, but another catalyst is suddenly in doubt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The chief executive of a major copper development project in North America believes high prices are here to stay and the threats to supply continue to outweigh those to demand.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Jim had copper red hair and wore round wire-rimmed glasses.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
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
In a nod to modernity, the buckets possessed a QR code on the outside - for digital donations - as well as coppers and some notes on the inside.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024
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
“Aye, because I forgot my coppers yesterday. But I’m glad I did, because it made me think. Now listen to me.”
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
Two lighters, coppered below, bearded with dark green weed, blundered alongside with bags of coal, and soon the gangs, a grimy and ragged collection, were getting the bags aboard, and the winch grumbling away.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
I’ve played hunches and coppered hunches, and lost both ways.
From Young Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
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 Sir John Ross
The French ships also had a great advantage in being coppered, besides which, though respectively carrying the same number of guns as the British, they were much larger vessels.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
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
On our arrival at Yokohama we were all in good health and the Vega in excellent condition, though, after the long voyage, in want of some minor repairs, of docking, and possibly of coppering.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
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 Harry Leon Wilson
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
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