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  • present participle of mine.
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mining

[mahy-ning] / ˈmaɪ nɪŋ /


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Poorly managed fires of this type are exacerbated by illicit practices such as deforestation, which is common in areas where illegal mining occurs.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

But the Trumps and their advisers have more recently pushed into real-world assets from drones to mining.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Nigeria's state oil firm and Morocco's national mining body are jointly leading the pipeline project.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

This type of lithium removal is different from traditional hardrock mining or evaporation ponds.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

For now, though, the deep-sea mining robot kept working, and the poison tide kept flowing.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

Nowhere for me, in these extensive minings and siftings.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Gibbs, Philip

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

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 Charles I, King of England




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