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The country produced 890,000 metric tons of the metal last year—an 8% annual jump—and plans to increase output to some 3 million metric tons by 2031, according to the mining ministry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
I have scattergrams — charts showing no reliable pattern — of every major valuation metric against one-year forward returns, and the dots are all over the map.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Aside from fans visiting the ground, perhaps the key metric will be the television audience and future wealth that can potentially be unlocked.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The miner said it now expects full-year copper production between 625,000 and 655,000 metric tons from a prior target of 650,000 to 700,000 metric tons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
After supper Gilly did her homework, knowing it was useless, that Miss Harris would never see the neat figures, row on row, that proved that Gilly Hopkins had met and mastered the metric system.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
Vocabulary lists containing metric
This Week in Pop Culture: December 8 -14, 2018
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for October 2–October 8, 2021
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