copper
Example Sentences
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My maternal grandmother, Marcela Fernández, was born in 1914 in an Arizona copper town to parents who fled the Mexican Revolution before returning to their mountain pueblo in Zacatecas.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
"An electric car contains 80 kg of copper, compared with 20 kg in a conventional one," he notes, while "a wind turbine contains between four and ten tons of copper per megawatt."
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
If copper holds its uptrend, especially alongside an easing Hormuz Stress Index, it would likely signal economic stabilization and an improving growth backdrop.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Separately, the White House said it was tweaking the terms of its tariffs on steel, aluminium and copper tariffs.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
“What if those copper ingots and that bronze knife were from…a sea trader of the time of Odysseus and the Trojan wars?”
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
