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ton

[tuhn] / tʌn /












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The most actively traded January iron ore contract on the Dalian Commodity Exchange is flat at 683.5 yuan a ton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Greenland sharks weigh in at one ton and reaching up to 23 feet in length.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Nvidia is also “generating a ton of cash” and “seemingly willing to use a good portion of that” for stock buybacks, Bryson said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

The only Englishman to compile a Test ton, and the scorer of 141 against India in a one-day international at Lord's, ends with nine scores below 20 from his other 15 innings.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

I heard the turning mechanism weighs more than a ton, and it was made melted-down metal from cannons captured from the Confederacy during the Civil War.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman




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