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nickel

[nik-uhl] / ˈnɪk əl /


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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

But they shouldn’t contribute another nickel beyond that.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

You could presumably use the fortune teller thing from “The Twilight Zone,” where you put a nickel in and a little slip of paper comes out.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

And so it is fitting that its image has been on the nickel since 1938, the only private house to dignify a standard item of American currency.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

But perhaps the best explanation of why Bobby cast aside all financial offers came from Bobby himself: “People are trying to exploit me. Nobody is going to make a nickel off of me!”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

“I would argue it’s like picking up nickels in front of a bulldozer,” he said.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 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

The shiny chrome-and-glass cafeteria, where customers inserted nickels into a slot and turned a knob to open a glass door for their food, was one of George Dasch's favorite restaurants.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

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

“People will tell you, ‘I don’t like being nickeled and dimed, just give me a price—I’m willing to pay more just to not have to deal with all of that.’

From Slate Dec. 24, 2014

Back and bed are of aluminum, metal parts are highly nickeled, and covering is of fine quality grain leather.

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

He stepped from the portieres to the safe, and the flashlight played again—this time reflecting back from the glistening nickelled knobs.

From The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

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 Vance, Louis Joseph

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 Bindloss, Harold

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

From The Monster and Other Stories by Crane, Stephen

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

From Washington Post Nov. 25, 2016

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

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard

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 Threlfall, Richard

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 Van Schaick, George




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