metal
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The clay, ceramic and metal sculptures look like munitions and rockets; one features a red handprint that symbolizes blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The EU said Ukraine's specific steel quota guaranteed exports of the metal, but acknowledged this was at a "level lower than in the past years".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Silver can be seen as hybrid leading indicator because of its dual role as a monetary precious metal and an industrial commodity.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
On Friday, thousands of security personnel were deployed in parts of the city, with yellow-coloured metal barricades put up at key intersections.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
There was a green lawn right next to the library called Bryant Park, where people were spread across the grass, or clustered around metal tables and chairs.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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After precious metals, cars are the country's second-biggest export earner to the United States, according to the South African tax authorities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Experts have also ruled out West Nile virus and heavy metals as factors that could have contributed to her death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The note scrutinized four distinct channels by which AI might contribute to pricing pressures: software and accessories, consumer electronics, electricity prices and other cost spillovers like industrial metals and construction wage growth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Investors are mainly in a wait-and-see mode ahead of major U.S. bank earnings and inflation data this week, says Peter A. Grant, vice president and senior metals strategist at Zaner Metals in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Because pure gold and silver are too soft to hold their shape, Andean metalworkers mixed them with other metals, usually copper.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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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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
The metaled turnpikes would dwindle and end in clay roads.
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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I believe there are over one hundred miles of metalled roads in the capital and the suburbs, all due to untiring M. Doumer.
From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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 few inches more metalling, perhaps, another generation of menders, and so on.
From Aliens by William McFee
A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.
From Jonah and Co. 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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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