nickel

Deep-sea mining seeks to tap previously untouched seabed deposits of a range of commodities, including cobalt and nickel, but the fledgling industry has long been stalled by environmental concerns.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Canada also has significant reserves of critical minerals like lithium, nickel and graphite.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Cuba holds significant deposits of cobalt and nickel, which are used in the production of electronics.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Playing the nickel position in Serra’s 4-2-5 defensive alignment, Ace contributed 52 tackles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

He wondered if the old man would accept two dimes and a nickel instead.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

The chain bundled food with items like character buttons, wooden nickels, hand puppets and drinking glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

“We have to do a better job to find those pennies out there—those pennies, nickels and dimes to save and not turn the lights on until you need to,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2025

A handful of pennies and nickels fell onto his desk.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

Marina thought there was inadequate medical oversight, and said the program "nickeled and dimed" her for additional services, like physicians' visits, that she thought would be included.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

“It does seem people feel they are being nickeled and dimed on paperwork,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

Teams this time of year are good enough to survive being nickeled and dimed for a run every couple innings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017

Demand, meanwhile, has grown—this despite passengers being nickeled, dimed, and $20-billed for everything from midflight snacks to mandatory bag-checking.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2014

It was now sharply cold outside, but the small room was warm and cheerful with the nickeled lamp lighted and a fire in the polished stove.

From Harding of Allenwood by Harold Bindloss

We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Taking my nickelled monkey-wrench into a likely-looking hardware store, I ask the proprietor if he has anything similar.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens

For copper, when the supply began to grow short, nickelled iron was quickly substituted.

From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes

A noise of light footsteps muffled by a rug, high heels tapping on uncovered floor, the scrape of a drawer pulled out: and she returned to give him a little nickelled electric torch.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

Amber entered, his eyes quick, his right hand in his pocket and grateful for the cold caress of nickelled steel, his body poised lightly and tensely upon the balls of his feet—in a word, ready.

From The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance

“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016

Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

One shining in the freshness of new nickelling; the other an old thing of battered tin, with faded gold letters.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick

The treatment in hot baths of alkali and cyanide is the method generally employed in American factories as a preliminary to the nickelling of small brass work for sewing machines, etc.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall