copper
Example Sentences
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My maternal grandmother, Marcela Fernández, was born in 1914 in an Arizona copper town to parents who fled the Mexican Revolution before returning to their mountain pueblo in Zacatecas.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
But it is copper, now an irreplaceable metal for the economy, that has become the object of global strategic contention.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Several processing stages later, 99.99 percent pure copper plates, each weighing more than a hundred kilos, are shipped all over the world.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Separately, the White House said it was tweaking the terms of its tariffs on steel, aluminium and copper tariffs.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
She left a few things inside the hole: a precious box of matches, some glass beads that had come off Aunt Shuvai’s bracelet, some of the copper wire Uncle Kufa used to decorate his snuffboxes.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
