nickel

Despite also having significant potential in cobalt, nickel and manganese, the country continues to struggle with persistent poverty, unemployment and rising food prices.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

However, James is a Swiss Army Knife who often plays nickel, meaning the Chargers need a solidified third safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Deep-sea mining companies want to scour the ocean's abyssal plains for mineral deposits and polymetallic nodules laden with nickel, copper and cobalt.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Even so, the nickel isotope signature allowed the researchers to narrow the impactor down to a rare class of carbonaceous meteorite.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

When he ate his dinner at Mister Brannon’s she went into the café and spent a nickel for a sack of peanuts.

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

The chain bundled food with items like character buttons, wooden nickels, hand puppets and drinking glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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

All of the Rommelys were insured by the same company and the same agent collected the nickels and dimes from each of the sisters weekly.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

Teams this time of year are good enough to survive being nickeled and dimed for a run every couple innings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017

Demand, meanwhile, has grown—this despite passengers being nickeled, dimed, and $20-billed for everything from midflight snacks to mandatory bag-checking.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2014

The shutter and all metal parts are highly nickeled and the covering is of the best leather, especially selected for its beautiful grain.

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

For nipping up the leather after covering, they should be nickelled to prevent the iron staining the leather.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

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

For this purpose the brass must be highly polished and divided before it is nickelled.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

In the pocket of a hanging coat was thrust a nickelled rod from a patent trousers-stretcher, so that it pointed out into the room.

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Sax Rohmer

“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

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

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