- present participle of mine.
mining
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Tyler, whose real name was Gaynor Hopkins, was born and raised in a traditional coal mining village northwest of Swansea, and divided her time between south Wales and Portugal in recent years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I think we’re all being overlooked,” said her brother, Sonny Haynes, who worries mining would reduce the family catch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Seven poor labourers in Panna, a diamond mining area in central India, have made a discovery that they say has the potential to change their lives forever.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But an American mining company is pushing to build a mine for gold and other metals on private land in the middle of the park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“I still haven’t given up on you being a mining engineer. We could work together.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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On Capitol Hill, the Reagan Administration was engaged in some belated fence mending with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Nothing would be done on either side but stick-in-the-mud warfare and those trench-raids and minings which had no object except "to keep up the spirit of the men."
From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
Meantime a cough, the herald of consumption, tormented him, and "the slow minings of the hectic fire" within began to manifest themselves more visibly in days and nights of feverish excitement.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831 by Various
Nowhere for me, in these extensive minings and siftings.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
Provided the differences amount not to an insolent opposition of Laws, and Government, or Religion established, as to the essentials of them, such motions and minings are intolerable.
From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by King of England Charles I
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