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copper

[kop-er] / ˈkɒp ər /














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Echoing that signature yellow hue: a walnut island, a hammered barrel-vaulted copper hood, a copper farmhouse sink and replicated 1920s cabinetry painted “Matchstick” by Farrow & Ball.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The US has been maintaining active tariffs ranging from 15% to 50% on Canadian steel, aluminum, and copper.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

In December, Washington pledged $1.25 billion for Balochistan's Reko Diq copper and gold mine.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

They found an unexpected effect that is also seen in metals such as copper and silver.

From Science Daily Jul. 16, 2026

Captain Smith explains to me how copper is rare and precious to them, so it is like gold is to the English.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

“This isn’t the local coppers coming down, these are men in dark suits.”

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2022

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

The record ratings came as a trailer for the finale suggested that it may, for better or worse, bring an end to AC-12's hunt for bent coppers.

From BBC May 1, 2021

“You want to say ‘I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’

From Seattle Times Oct. 13, 2020

The smells were making her mouth water, but she did not have three coppers ... or one.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’ve jest give Mrs. Campbell a bird’s-eye view of your career, so you’re coppered on that bet from the start.”

From Wunpost by Coolidge, Dane

I’ve played hunches and coppered hunches, and lost both ways.

From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

Two lighters, coppered below, bearded with dark green weed, blundered alongside with bags of coal, and soon the gangs, a grimy and ragged collection, were getting the bags aboard, and the winch grumbling away.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

During action this becomes coppered, while in contact with the sulphate of copper, but it is not attacked by the acid.

From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by Bottone, S. R.

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

The invention of coppering the ships' bottoms, and thus adding to their speed, although generally practiced in England, had been applied in France only to the smaller part of the navy.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)

A method of coppering soldered articles will be described later on.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard

Later I asked husband what "coppering" meant and he smiled and said: "betting that it will not win."

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll

However, at a temperature of 50° C. the above receipt gives an excellent coppering liquid, which will coat zinc with a fine reguline deposit.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard




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