copper
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In the last episode, from 2023 to 2024, drought sapped hydropower output in Zambia, hitting copper producers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
As the miner sells its aluminum business, it is putting copper and zinc at the heart of growth plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Hichilema entered the race as the clear favourite after steering Zambia -- Africa's second-largest copper producer -- through a major economic turnaround and restructuring its debt.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
A single 1-gigawatt AI facility can require tens of thousands of tons of copper for wiring, cooling and power distribution.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Yakov stopped me when I held out a coin, closing my fingers around the copper.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
“You want to say `I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
There do exist bent coppers as the saying goes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
The question is, whether this would make up for the money lost if there were no coppers to donate?
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2018
The pot-shops would give you a fistful of coppers for a litter of pups, she'd heard, but she didn't like to think about that.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Her “hull,” or body, was now coppered and neatly painted, while all the rubbish of the building-yard was cleared away, so that everything looked neat and clean.
From The Life of a Ship by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
In former ships of war, a fine white painted line or bend, representing the deep line of flotation, on the coppered edge.—Load water-line.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The French ships also had a great advantage in being coppered, besides which, though respectively carrying the same number of guns as the British, they were much larger vessels.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Both the boats on which the edifice rests are well coppered, and protected from injury by booms placed around them.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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
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Well, have your own way; but I'll fool you again, while you're coppering me.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
Later I asked husband what "coppering" meant and he smiled and said: "betting that it will not win."
From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin
This year also the experiment for coppering ships’ bottoms as a preservation against worms was introduced into the Royal Navy, and tried on the Alarm frigate, of 32 guns.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Not that you have not played your game well enough, but there never was a game played so well that some other fellow could not win by coppering it.
From 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough
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