metal
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An investment in a firm that recovers “salmon gold” from abandoned mines in western Canada and Alaska promises to add traceable metal meanwhile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Metallica, the biggest band in metal, thrives in that tension between the genre’s outrageous grandeur, grimy nihilism and outlaw camaraderie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
That approach means BVR-19 does not require an additional expensive metal catalyst, Stylianou added.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
It could be a pretty boring, sometimes horrifying process — I’ll never forget the thrash metal song we received about Shannen Doherty that sounded like it was recorded in a blender.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The doorway was gone and so was the metal piece that had been wedged there—like a key.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Fundamental support for those stocks is broadening out, with manufacturing backlogs ramping up across machinery, fabricated metals and other categories, and manufacturing data showing a buildup in orders, strategists said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The EU's trade enforcement chief, Denis Redonnet, said sectors facing "sustained and abnormal" import increases included machinery, textiles, basic metals and chemicals.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
A 2022 paper also identified higher levels of toxic metals associated with crude oil in the nail clippings of people living near the site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The damage to the metals industry could have devastating consequences for Ukraine's economy and society.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
It can be molded with bare hands, but unlike silver and some other metals, it does not dissolve in certain acids.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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
But here the horses beat a sharp rat-tat with metal shoes on a metaled road, and the rubber-tired wheels ran noiselessly.
From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck
When it was over, the crowd scattered to their vehicles and the wheels clattered over the metaled roads, but in the burial ground, when all the rest were gone, two figures tarried.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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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Canadian lines are neither metalled nor ballasted with much solidity; and with only one car to steady it the huge machine appeared to leap over each inequality of the track.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss
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
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
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
A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
The terrier, he knew, had crossed the road, and there was something about this particular reach of metalling that tempted motorists to pass at the deuce of a pace.
From Anthony Lyveden 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
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
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