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mining

[mahy-ning] / ˈmaɪ nɪŋ /


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Values of colored gemstones have risen since the pandemic, following constraints in mining.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Berkeley is one of many school trying this gambit, which often involves mining admissions essays for race-related stories.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

The idea of mining online conversations for clues about drug safety predates today's AI boom.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Tata has been mining soda ash for years in Lake Magadi, a vast area often covered by a whitish salt crust.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

The mining station manager had agreed to cooperate.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

On Capitol Hill, the Reagan Administration was engaged in some belated fence mending with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Provided the differences amount not to an insolent opposition of Laws, and Government, or Religion established, as to the essentials of them, such motions and minings are intolerable.

From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by King of England Charles I

Nothing would be done on either side but stick-in-the-mud warfare and those trench-raids and minings which had no object except "to keep up the spirit of the men."

From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

And the open goings-forth of it, still more the secret minings and mole-courses of it, were into all places.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle

Meantime a cough, the herald of consumption, tormented him, and "the slow minings of the hectic fire" within began to manifest themselves more visibly in days and nights of feverish excitement.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831 by Various




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