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copper

[kop-er] / ˈkɒp ər /














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The images date back as far as the 1840s when the Daguerrotype process that popularized photography and made images printed on silver-plated copper sheets common keepsakes.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Meanwhile, the artificial-intelligence data-center build-out has heated up demand for other home-building materials, including copper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Investors have debated the advantages of optical technology over traditional copper.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Instead of relying on a separate anode material, they allow lithium to accumulate directly on a thin sheet of copper foil.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

He handed Somkit a stack of tin sheets and a bundle of short copper wires.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Her odyssey also takes her to Falster, an island at the bottom of the country, where she finds “a cluster of sooty coppers on a few glossy yellow flowers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

“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

I knew how few coppers they made and how often they had to go without rice but, on the other hand, I felt sorry for those who were chosen.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The officers acknowledged to their captors that there were a considerable number more gunboats in the harbour, all new and coppered, very fast, and well fitted for service.

From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Archibald Webb

Their brown skins coppered by the rosy glow of the setting sun, they stood in strained suspense awaiting the climax.

From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

Why I don’t believe it is, because I’ve seed the creature stickin’ just the same way to the coppered bottom o’ a ship, and likewise to the sides o’ rocks under the water.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

These boats were coppered and fitted with a cabin at the after part.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

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

It seems they sing, Even though coppering is not an easy thing.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell

He told husband that he had been "coppering" the market ever since he came to the city and had "taken every trick."

From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin

When both ends are silvered the process of coppering by electro deposit is commenced.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

On our arrival at Yokohama we were all in good health and the Vega in excellent condition, though, after the long voyage, in want of some minor repairs, of docking, and possibly of coppering.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie


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