mill
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Over four generations, the Howards built a permanent mill in Statesboro, Ga., and added timberland to feed it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
By the second day, one friend was walking arm-in-arm toward the cinnamon bread grist mill with its cashier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Along the way, he met his wife, an accountant at a state-owned textile mill, state media said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Jack, who is further along in the program and seems to bring Cody out of his shell, also helps him land a job at a lumber mill where he works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I went to the mill for my rations and waited in the long line with a grumbling stomach.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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A paper company gave the Howards a wood chipper for their sawmill in the 1960s, and they began supplying pulp mills on the coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Guests stroll into blacksmith shops and corn mills, dine on cinnamon bread and other local delicacies, and seek quiet time in an authentic Appalachian chapel.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
El Niño has affected rainfall in Thailand, while heavy rain has disrupted cane harvesting in Brazil, the world's largest sugar producer, where mills are also diverting more cane to ethanol.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Even earlier, sugar mills would set aside around 10% of their output for this, helping stabilise prices in times of excess production.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
People who had migrated from their family farms to the coal camps and textile mills that had promised greater opportunity were forced to return home, including Colored men who had worked in the coal mines.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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A further 29.8 million tonnes of rice is expected to be added once paddy already procured from farmers is milled.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
PHOENIX—As officials and contractors working in border security milled around a convention-center hall this week, artificial intelligence analyzed their threat potential in real time, displaying the results on computer screens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Inside, guests milled about on multiple levels where pre-dinner receptions were occurring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
Hours before strikes hit Iraq's capital, crowds milled in central Baghdad to the sound not of missiles but clinking coffee cups, children laughing and women filming TikToks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
A group of boys milled around outside, glancing anxiously at the upper windows as if expecting a hideous beast to leap out in an explosion of glass and wood.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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Same-day zirconia crowns are already offered in some dental practices, but they are typically produced by milling rather than 3D printing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
AFP on Saturday saw migrant minors milling around in a disused industrial park in Ceuta, while others dozed on the pavements outside.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Born in 1932 in South Africa to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants who ran a malt business, Kirsh ventured into grain milling and then distribution, according to news reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Sean Murtha, a Los Angeles Police Department officer, testified he responded to a 911 call and found people milling around an F-150 in the middle of Fountain Avenue, “crying, yelling hysterically.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
In the distance I could see the British troops milling around the house.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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