metal
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Less than a week ago, the museum debuted a new piece of public art, Shio Kusaka’s “Beam,” a clay mosaic flying saucer supported by a yellow metal cone of light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
This allows them to pass through an energy barrier separating the metal tip from the silver surface, even though classical physics predicts they should not have enough energy to cross it.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
The “body armor” in his possession was a metal plate that he planned to use for an art project, his defense attorney said in court records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
It bore battle scars, but there was a shielded space under two large concrete slabs and between two large metal boilers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
At that exact same moment, there was a terrifying roar that shook the metal building and reverberated inside Chase’s chest and all the way down to his toes.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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Find insight on precious metals, Cleveland-Cliffs and more in the latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Experts in Cardiff will now try to learn as much as they can from the brooches - including how they were made, the types of metals used and where they came from.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
An increase in buying of Canadian-held unwrought gold by Americans drove a sharp rise in precious metals exports, and more than made up for lower shipments of gold to the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The programme provides duty-free access to the US market for South African vehicles, the country's second-largest export earner to the United States after precious metals, according to the South African Revenue Service.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The wild metals writhed, moving towers and turrets around like musical chairs.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Coutu/Los Angeles and Jeanne Saddler/Washington, with other U.S. bureaus Frozen in bronze, the black infantrymen trudge forever forward, their rifles scraping the metaled sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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That he would be until they returned to metaled roads and electric-tramways; then the lover, with the lover's message to deliver....
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
The metaled turnpikes would dwindle and end in clay roads.
From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck
It was bounded by a low wooden fence, which screened it off from a broad, modern, new metaled road.
From Beyond the City by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022
Today we talk about capital cities and forums, as well as structures such as amphitheatres, basilicas, metalled roads, pavements and multi-storey apartment blocks because of the idea of the city that Rome bequeathed us.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016
Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2013
In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities."
From Time Magazine Archive
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A broad new road to the pier was cut and metalled, but no one uses it.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
The hand he had been holding behind him came to the front, clutching a stone snatched up from the metaling of the pike as he ran.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
There was a purring of wheels in the air and the staccato clatter of a horse's hoofs on the hard metaling of the pike.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
He swung off into the darkness, and a minute later Anthony heard his steps upon the metalling of the London road.
From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
In places the metalling broke through, making holes similar to holes in thick ice, with well-defined margin.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
We whipped through St. Jean de Luz, sang through Bidart, and hobbled over a fearful stretch of metalling into Bayonne….
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
Added to these machines was one of Blake's stone-crushers to break stone of various gauges for metalling the roads of the town.
From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair
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