metal
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Sharon Osbourne, the widow of heavy metal pioneer Ozzy, has used the first anniversary of his death to tell fans to remember him by playing music "really loud".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
As the din of clanking metal dims, the smell of grease and exhaust lingers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Working with the University of Sheffield, the firm introduced 3D metal printing to make new product development a faster and less expensive process.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But the cluster of blue-paneled, four-story apartment buildings—constructed by a Turkish contractor—quickly crumbled into piles of twisted metal and plywood when the earthquakes rocked Venezuela’s northern coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
They were held up by black metal stands.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Canadian premiers have said repeatedly that the boycott will be lifted if the US removes its tariffs on key Canadian sectors, including metals and automobiles.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
During her time with USA Rare Earth, she helped the company secure public-private partnerships that established a global footprint that includes critical processing, metals and magnet capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Downstairs, men sort plastics, cardboard, paper, metals and glass into neat piles destined for workshops and factories.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Scientists have previously used phrases such as "metallike biomaterials" or "biomaterials with metallike properties" for biological substances that resemble metals in strength or electrical conductivity.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
Instead, they snaked along the canals that led deeper inland, toward the metals district.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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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 Hervey, Harry
The road that came out of the pines, formerly deeply rutted and sandy, was now metaled and approached the house in a graded curve.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul
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
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They set out the direction, and roads, when they began to be improved, were often merely the old routes widened, straightened, and metalled.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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.
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.
A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.
From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford
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 Cox, Jacob Dolson
A few inches more metalling, perhaps, another generation of menders, and so on.
From Aliens by McFee, William
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
It is not now recognisable as a road, but the steep banks at each side of it, and some bluish metalling in the shell holes, show that one once ran there.
From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John
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