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[mil] / mɪl /




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Holt said the mill can be hard to find for visitors, as it is not close to the A55 road.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

But he added: "I'm struggling and the winter is hard, but painting the mill has attracted more visitors here and helped me pay the bills."

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Steel, recently acquired by Japan’s Nippon Steel, has begun investing $950 million to upgrade the Gary mill, which employs about 4,300 people.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

It has also pledged to restart a tin mill on the site that will employ 225 workers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The ghosts and sheydim abandoned their positions and began to mill into the theater, flashing her grins and murmuring congratulations, though she couldn’t understand what they were even congratulating her for.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

“The mills are currently commissioning on water and it looks set for a ramp-up from September,” UBS says of the new hub.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

When the rumor mills incorrectly assumed Page was playing Achilles, heads exploded.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

Robert Archer says haulage costs have been "a big hit", forcing him to increase the price of the organic flour he mills in North Yorkshire.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

"Production and supply have deteriorated to the point where it is going to be difficult for the mills to stay open," he said, speaking anonymously because he feared retaliation.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

He was a sallow young man who worked in one of the mills.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

Hundreds of families milled around on Beirut's Ramlet al-Baida beach, left with nowhere to go.

From Barron's Mar. 6, 2026

At Linate Airport, the closest of Milan’s three airports to the city center, two camouflage-clad Italian soldiers with long guns milled outside the arrival gates Monday evening.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 2026

Customers receive a card explaining the provenance of their “health-enabling” undies, including the locations where the fiber is grown, milled into fabric, dyed and sewn.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

When they got to the Sedillo fence, they dismounted and walked along a thirty-foot section where the tracks crisscrossed and the cattle had milled around before they broke through the fence.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Shuttered storefronts lined Calle Real, the city's main commercial artery, where the usual flow of shoppers and residents had been replaced by scores of migrants milling around the streets.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

Born in 1932 in South Africa to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants who ran a malt business, Kirsh ventured into grain milling and then distribution, according to news reports.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

The cavities were created using focused ion beam milling in thick, mechanically exfoliated Bi2Te3 flakes.

From Science Daily Mar. 24, 2026

It was built by the community after the King "charged too much for milling" at Marford Mill, "he had a monopoly on grinding corn," said Brendan.

From BBC Jan. 24, 2026

When she reached the second-floor landing and saw the crowd milling below, she hung back.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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