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The yellow metal has rebounded sharply from July lows, supported by renewed investment demand and growing unease over the U.S. fiscal outlook, say ING strategists in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

On ordinary metal surfaces, small droplets often merge into a continuous film of water.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

A bit farther down, I’d find the poster who spoke only in comments lifted from forums about the mallcore metal act Avenged Sevenfold.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

"We would ask the government to help us with things like metal detectors, which could help us find out whether there are other minerals here, so that our community can develop," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The tires on my faithful old bicycle had finally given out and I had joined the hundreds clattering about town on metal wheel rims.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

In the Appalachian region stretching through the US state of West Virginia, the reddish water flowing out of retired coal mines is acidic, full of heavy metals and toxic for the environment.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

The moves were a bit hard to square with rising bond yields, which makes holding precious metals a tough sell compared to just plonking the money in a savings account.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Prices of primary non-ferrous metal products declined 5.2% in July, led by a drop in gold, silver and platinum group metals, and their alloys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Between 200,000 and 400,000 people are estimated to engage in artisanal mining in Colombia, with many families relying on the income from selling the precious metals and stones they find to make ends meet.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

I’d avoided talking to him all day, but the lab forced me to relay data about chemical reactions with certain types of metals so he could write it down.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

Coutu/Los Angeles and Jeanne Saddler/Washington, with other U.S. bureaus Frozen in bronze, the black infantrymen trudge forever forward, their rifles scraping the metaled sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But here the horses beat a sharp rat-tat with metal shoes on a metaled road, and the rubber-tired wheels ran noiselessly.

From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

When it was over, the crowd scattered to their vehicles and the wheels clattered over the metaled roads, but in the burial ground, when all the rest were gone, two figures tarried.

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

That he would be until they returned to metaled roads and electric-tramways; then the lover, with the lover's message to deliver....

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey

The Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022

Today we talk about capital cities and forums, as well as structures such as amphitheatres, basilicas, metalled roads, pavements and multi-storey apartment blocks because of the idea of the city that Rome bequeathed us.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016

Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2013

In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities."

From Time Magazine Archive

The big car did a double two way skid, tore serpentine ruts on the metalled road surface and stopped.

From Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee

There was a purring of wheels in the air and the staccato clatter of a horse's hoofs on the hard metaling of the pike.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

The hand he had been holding behind him came to the front, clutching a stone snatched up from the metaling of the pike as he ran.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

He swung off into the darkness, and a minute later Anthony heard his steps upon the metalling of the London road.

From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates

The first rise of sandy yellow loam showed the normal Gold Coast metalling of iron-stone and quartz-gravel, thinly spread with water-rounded pebbles.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

A few inches more metalling, perhaps, another generation of menders, and so on.

From Aliens by William McFee

A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

The terrier, he knew, had crossed the road, and there was something about this particular reach of metalling that tempted motorists to pass at the deuce of a pace.

From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates