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copper

[kop-er] / ˈkɒp ər /














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Using a hand-held X-ray fluorescence scanner, Packard-Grams found that some of those documents contain ink with lead and/or copper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“This holds true across physical copper, gold, silver, and platinum, as well as copper and gold equities,” the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"I think we're at the end of copper," says Chris Sharp, the chief technology officer at data centre operator Digital Reality.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The reason is the high value of copper, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The clerk caught my eye and said, “Those are copper pyrite rocks.”

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

Her odyssey also takes her to Falster, an island at the bottom of the country, where she finds “a cluster of sooty coppers on a few glossy yellow flowers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

In a nod to modernity, the buckets possessed a QR code on the outside - for digital donations - as well as coppers and some notes on the inside.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024

Mette, who has been with the department for 18 years, told "young coppers" they have a "long way to go."

From Fox News ● Oct. 21, 2021

There do exist bent coppers as the saying goes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018

Inside were four coppers and a little hank of blond hair tied up with a red ribbon.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was coppered to the bends, was painted black to her rails, with the exception of a broad red ribbon round her, and was pierced for eighteen guns.

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson

I’ve jest give Mrs. Campbell a bird’s-eye view of your career, so you’re coppered on that bet from the start.”

From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

The officers acknowledged to their captors that there were a considerable number more gunboats in the harbour, all new and coppered, very fast, and well fitted for service.

From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Archibald Webb

She's new coppered, and hasn't broke up yet.'

From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood

Clampett & Co. expect to get richer still on royalties, and are coppering their bet by making a round-the-world tour, beating bandits and fattening the market for their book.

From Time Magazine Archive

On our arrival at Yokohama we were all in good health and the Vega in excellent condition, though, after the long voyage, in want of some minor repairs, of docking, and possibly of coppering.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

The invention of coppering the ships' bottoms, and thus adding to their speed, although generally practiced in England, had been applied in France only to the smaller part of the navy.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell

However, at a temperature of 50° C. the above receipt gives an excellent coppering liquid, which will coat zinc with a fine reguline deposit.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

It seems they sing, Even though coppering is not an easy thing.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell




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