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copper

[kop-er] / ˈkɒp ər /














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Based on the known pipeline of copper mine projects, the International Energy Agency forecasts that primary copper supply—excluding scrap—could be 25% lower than demand by 2035.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

My maternal grandmother, Marcela Miranda, was born in Arizona’s copper country in 1914 and lived in the United States until she was about 7.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Copper’s red-hot rally this year reflects a dislocation, according to Charles Cooper, head of copper research at Wood Mackenzie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Globally, the copper market is expected to face a surplus this year, but that is concentrated in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

He pointed to two thin strands of copper wire connected to the black box.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Her odyssey also takes her to Falster, an island at the bottom of the country, where she finds “a cluster of sooty coppers on a few glossy yellow flowers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

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 Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

I crawled rapidly around the floor, picking up the coins, trying to avoid the coppers and to get greenbacks and the gold.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Why I don’t believe it is, because I’ve seed the creature stickin’ just the same way to the coppered bottom o’ a ship, and likewise to the sides o’ rocks under the water.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

The officers acknowledged to their captors that there were a considerable number more gunboats in the harbour, all new and coppered, very fast, and well fitted for service.

From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Archibald Webb

Base metals, zinc, pewter, lead, etc., are first coppered in a cyanide of copper solution, as will be described under the head of Copper-plating.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

Lucy—brigantine; 520 tons; oak-built, coppered, and copper-fastened throughout; has only been to sea twice; excellent sea-boat, very fast and weatherly; fully found in every respect, and quite ready for sea.

From The Voyage of the Aurora by Harry Collingwood

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

However, at a temperature of 50° C. the above receipt gives an excellent coppering liquid, which will coat zinc with a fine reguline deposit.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

It seems they sing, Even though coppering is not an easy thing.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell

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

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

The invention of coppering the ships' bottoms, and thus adding to their speed, although generally practiced in England, had been applied in France only to the smaller part of the navy.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell




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