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copper

[kop-er] / ˈkɒp ər /














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The bank says the merged company will become one of the world’s biggest and highest-quality copper miners, and has significant re-rating potential over the next two to three years.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

The firm specializes in copper cables used to connect AI servers to networking switches.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

She wrote in her report that “heavy metals, notably lead, zinc, copper, chromium, arsenic, and antimony, were detected above laboratory reporting limits.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Chilean copper producer Antofagasta cut its production forecast after a powerful storm stopped operations at its Los Pelambres mine in July, squeezing an already tight market.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

He tapped the coin against the lantern’s copper shade, listened to it ring.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

In it he said: "Look at how many coppers there are in my house... That, ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we live in."

From BBC Oct. 4, 2023

“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

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

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 2020

As Ranofer scrambled down from his stone to take the scroll back, he saw Pai at the pay box, counting out to Gebu the coppers from yesterday, and those for today as well.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The French ships also had a great advantage in being coppered, besides which, though respectively carrying the same number of guns as the British, they were much larger vessels.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston

She had then been recaulked and coppered; besides having her rigging set up again and tarred down, as well as the coverings and seizings replaced, and the chaffing gear paid over.

From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

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

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

The bell-tower, which is very high, is a great square tower to the left of the choir, surmounted by a steeple formerly covered with wooden shingles, but in recent times coppered.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

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

Not that you have not played your game well enough, but there never was a game played so well that some other fellow could not win by coppering it.

From 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough

Naturally I'd been prejudiced against him not only by his mother's praise but by his father's steady coppering of the same.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

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

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

Well, have your own way; but I'll fool you again, while you're coppering me.

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson




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