nickel

Cuba holds significant deposits of cobalt and nickel, which are used in the production of electronics.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

Some of them, called M type asteroids, contain large quantities of iron, nickel, and other useful metals.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

I had no idea an old lady was peeking in the window and saw me tip the pig over and slide out one nickel, two, three at most.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Going from a bulky commercial hydrogen sensor to a smart device about the size of a stack of three nickels was a technical challenge like that of any consumer-health wearable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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

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

As a start-up entrepreneur, Behzadzadeh nursed a swelling grudge against the contractors and vendors who nickeled and dimed him, he thought, at every turn — maybe even Safe Harbor.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

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

The Kodak Film Tank consists of a winding box, a light-proof apron, and a heavily nickeled brass solution cup with cover.

From Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 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

There was suddenly a sharp click, a turn of the nickelled handle, and on mute hinges the safe-door opened.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

Taking my nickelled monkey-wrench into a likely-looking hardware store, I ask the proprietor if he has anything similar.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens

A huge basin full of hot water stood ready under the nickelled faucets.

From Aliens by William McFee

The place was brightly lighted by a nickelled lamp, though it was scarcely four feet high and the centreboard trunk occupied the middle of it.

From The Protector by Harold Bindloss

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

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016

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

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