nickel

Described in the catalog as a “hanging, nine-lobed, single-layered continuous form,” made of a skein of finely looped copper and nickel wire, it resembles so many baskets hanging from a chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

"Elevated concentrations of cadmium and nickel in freshwater, and cadmium and arsenic in soil, were largely confined to Deene Quarry and a former slag heap in Weldon," the group added.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Oh yes, that extra nickel is before taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Between 2012 and 2023, official gold production nearly quadrupled from 13 to 51 tonnes, while the country also boasts veins of iron, diamonds, nickel, manganese, bauxite, copper and coltan.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

He sold them nickel things for three cents.

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

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

"Four dollars and forty-two cents. Fourteen quarters, five dimes, three nickels, and twenty-seven pennies."

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

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

To hold objects of different sizes, the soft copper wire may be bent easily; and in this respect the home-made dippers are better than the nickeled ones on the market.

From Candy-Making Revolutionized Confectionery from Vegetables by Mary Elizabeth Hall

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

A noise of light footsteps muffled by a rug, high heels tapping on uncovered floor, the scrape of a drawer pulled out: and she returned to give him a little nickelled electric torch.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

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 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

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

“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