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Palm oil output could remain under pressure from dry weather and wildfires, while low water levels could disrupt coal transportation and nickel production in near term, they reckon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The same bill authorizes the Mint to make the nickel out of cheaper stuff, an inner layer of zinc wrapped in nickel, subject to testing that it actually lowers the cost.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Even so, its overall performance was comparable to that of an 8.0 wt% Ni/Al2O3 catalyst produced through impregnation, despite containing only one tenth as much nickel.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

With the Bulldogs backed up against their goal line, Patterson dialed up a nickel blitz — and Fresno State didn’t account for it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Trampita came up with a plan one day to catch fish and sell them for a nickel apiece to kids in our neighborhood.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

At night, Hig and Bangley play poker with stacks of $5,000 bills that they throw around as casually as nickels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

“We have to do a better job to find those pennies out there—those pennies, nickels and dimes to save and not turn the lights on until you need to,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2025

I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

“It’s the fastest way to degrade your loyalty and satisfaction among the people who are traveling with you, because they feel like they’re being nickeled and dimed,” Taylor told me.

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

Marina thought there was inadequate medical oversight, and said the program "nickeled and dimed" her for additional services, like physicians' visits, that she thought would be included.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

“I can’t think of a worse business – high fixed costs, commodity product, worsening service, alienated customers sick of being nickeled and dimed for every amenity.”

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2022

“It does seem people feel they are being nickeled and dimed on paperwork,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

The covering is a rich black morocco, the bellows black leather, and metal parts are handsomely nickeled, producing a most attractive combination.

From Premo Cameras 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company

We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The barkeeper took his coin and maneuvered it through its reception by the highly nickelled cash-machine.

From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

Around his neck was a broad nickelled collar.

From A Man's Woman by Frank Norris

Every gaze was welded to the tiny nickelled box.

From The Spoilers by Rex Ellingwood Beach

Amber entered, his eyes quick, his right hand in his pocket and grateful for the cold caress of nickelled steel, his body poised lightly and tensely upon the balls of his feet—in a word, ready.

From The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance

“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016

The treatment in hot baths of alkali and cyanide is the method generally employed in American factories as a preliminary to the nickelling of small brass work for sewing machines, etc.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

One shining in the freshness of new nickelling; the other an old thing of battered tin, with faded gold letters.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick

Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall