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mill

[mil] / mɪl /




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With the "rumour mill going wild" there was "confusion" within the group.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

People stop by Amadou Gaye's shack at the market in the western town of Sukuta to use his small electric mill to grind millet for cooking porridge or the local steamed grain dish called chere.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

A baseball grandstand burned down last year, and in March, a lumber mill that employed about 30 people caught fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Finland has been a “vital hub” for Google, since the company bought a paper mill in Hamina, Finland, in 2009 and converted it to a data center.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The helicopter continued on to Kendra, where the smokestacks of a paper mill normally puffed gray clouds into the sky, twenty-four hours a day.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Food Tank's Nierenberg argues that traditional mills should be getting some of the money poured by the US government into agro-industry subsidies.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

But the price has been depressed by a flood of fiber from adjacent areas where mills have closed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

A paper company gave the Howards a wood chipper for their sawmill in the 1960s, and they began supplying pulp mills on the coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

El Niño has affected rainfall in Thailand, while heavy rain has disrupted cane harvesting in Brazil, the world's largest sugar producer, where mills are also diverting more cane to ethanol.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The mills and cattle were also given to Jeremiah, but the following year, Musaiwale, the oldest brother, forcefully took one mill and half the cows.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

Next door at the JW Marriott hotel, ballrooms are converted into press workspaces where celebrities and their teams milled about throughout the ceremony, reuniting cast-mates who haven't seen each other since they wrapped filming.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

A further 29.8 million tonnes of rice is expected to be added once paddy already procured from farmers is milled.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

One of the artists, 13-year-old Yoselin Pacheco Ruiz, seemed particularly pleased as students and adults milled about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

Hundreds of people milled around a popular market in La Paz, stocking up on food products that had only just arrived.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

A pack of white timber wolves milled around their feet, and many of the girls had hunting falcons on their arms.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Heavily processed milling strips away bran, germ and other nutrients, and while federal law requires such flour to be enriched, the end product still lacks key vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

That approach can restrict the complexity of possible designs and carries a risk of micro-cracking during milling or sintering.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Her machinery allowed households to produce meal more reliably and in greater quantities and supported the shift from subsistence hand-pounding to mechanized milling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

There wasn't exactly an air of shock among members milling around the tea and coffee tables in Paisley.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

Other actors were milling about, finding their places for Act Three, and Justice Strauss was off in a corner, practicing her lines from her law book.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket




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