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
With copper’s long-term uptrend intact and sentiment turning up from extreme pessimism, copper becomes a conditional confirmation test for the reopening theme.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
But it is copper, now an irreplaceable metal for the economy, that has become the object of global strategic contention.
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
A blue-gray cat with round copper eyes posed on the cover, his elegant stance twisting his husky frame.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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