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Profit from Berkshire’s portfolio of manufacturing, service and retailing businesses—a group that includes industrial metal components, Duracell batteries and Flying J fuel stations—jumped 24% to $4.47 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

“Our team is continuing to interpret these findings alongside some additional specialized testing, which also includes further heavy metal testing that remains pending,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Their calculations included the energy needed to travel between Mars and different asteroids, the amount of metal that could realistically be collected, and the fuel required to complete the journey.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

It has big metal security fencing all around it and is covered in graffiti, with vegetation growing out of the roof.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

He watched as Abby lifted the metal walker and put it down, then leaned on it to balance herself while she stepped forward.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

The Environment Agency said this is because legacy substances, such as heavy metals from mining, take decades to break down, and some are building up.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

June’s rise in exports was buoyed by a nearly 28% increase in precious metals with a rise in gold shipments to the U.K. and higher purchases of Canadian-held gold by foreign residents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The problem is in getting enough critical supplies, such as metals, fertilizer and computer chips — and getting them on time.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Veterinarians will continue to monitor Jackie’s blood and white cell levels and are expected to test her for signs of contamination from less common heavy metals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

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 Hervey, Harry

The metaled turnpikes would dwindle and end in clay roads.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville

It was bounded by a low wooden fence, which screened it off from a broad, modern, new metaled road.

From Beyond the City by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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

From Laoshan to Lutin, where a metalled road began, was 30 miles, crossed by a track formed at one time by quagmire, at another by slippery boulders.

From World's War Events, Vol. I by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

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 Ashe, E. M.

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 Ashe, E. M.

Nails, felt and labour metalling are subject to a deduction of one-third.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

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 McNair, John Frederick Adolphus

It is the best ground of all, especially where the yellow or brown sands are overlaid by hard gravel, or by a natural metalling of trap and other stones.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

Roads.—The alignment of good roads in the plains of the Panjáb is easy, and the deposits of calcareous nodules or kankar often found near the surface furnish good metalling material.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir